Tombstone’s Allen Street is one of the most famous in the Old West. On the north side saloons were open 24 hours a day. It’s typical of Arizona’s curious anomalies that the street was named, not for a famous lawman, outlaw or gunfighter but for a man who made a fortune selling pies. John Allen came to Arizona during the 1858 gold rush at Gila City, a few miles east of Yuma. That same year he moved on to Tucson where he gave up gold prospecting and began selling dried apple pies for a buck
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