Life in Tombstone

While looking through the dog-eared copy of one of my favorite authors and mentor, Dr. Leland Sonnichson’s Billy King’s Tombstone, I see that, contrary to a lot of western movies, Tombstone was a pretty sophisticated city in its day. The Arizona Telephone Company began installing poles and lines for the city's first telephone service on March 15th, 1881. Just think, Wyatt Earp, on his way to the gunfight could have said, “Virgil, hold on a minute while I take this call.” By mid-yea