Some cowboys supposedly took a photograph of a prehistoric-like bird or reptile, and tacked the picture to a barn outside of Tombstone, Arizona. Some say the Epitaph ran a story about it in 1890. Is this story true? Scott Mensching, Via the Internet I called my friend Ben Traywick in Tombstone to get the lowdown on “Big Bird.” He’s heard the story many times and has tried to chase it down, but he hasn’t, yet. “The bird,” he says, “was supposed to have, among other things, a


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