Tombstone Thunderbird

The most celebrated Thunderbird encounter took place in 1890, on the desert sands of what was then the Arizona Territory. Two cowboys had a bizarre confrontation which has varied widely in the telling, but the gist of the story is this: they saw a giant flying bird, shot and killed it with their rifles, and carried its spectacular carcass into town. A report in the April 26, 1890, Tombstone Epigraph listed the creature's wingspan as an alarming 160 feet, and noted that the bird was about 92 f