One of the Dirtiest Places in the World

That's how journalist Clara Spalding Brown first described Tombstone, Arizona Territory, when she arrived in June of 1880 from San Diego with her prospector husband. She wrote honest and unflattering portraits of the town in letters and newspaper columns—17 of them contained in Lynn R. Bailey's “Tombstone from a Women's Point of View.” Mrs. Brown found a town of “canvas, frame and adobe” where the only “attractive places” were the liquor and gambling saloons—where she never we