Five essential reads, alongside my work, that I recommend folks read before they visit Tombstone are: Tombstone, A.T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling and Mayhem by William B. Shillingberg (Arthur H. Clark Co., 1999): Casual readers may find Shillingberg’s detailed writing style to be a bit dense, but the man is a vacuum cleaner when it comes to facts. Carp about his conclusions all you want, but he’s basing them on exhaustive research. If you want to “read” Tombstone, this is whe

July 2013
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- Billy the Kid’s New Mexico
- Custer’s Little Bighorn Battlefield
- Quanah Parker’s Comanche Country
- Tombstone’s O.K. Corral
- Stalwart Army Sweethearts
- Was Bass Reeves the Real Lone Ranger?
- Tom Mix’s Wild West
- Gold Rush Country
- Great Road Reads
- A Poor Man’s Search for Charlie Russell
- Bloody Siege at Milk Creek
- Searching for The Searchers
- A Mandan Circle Unbroken
- Lee Marvin: Point Blank
- Death by Rolling Pin?
- What do you know about a bank holdup in Hatch, New Mexico?
- Mysterious Dave
- Power on the Plains
- This is a Hold Up
- Who actually shot the coin tossed in the air in the movie Winchester ‘73?
- Not a Pipe Dream
- Following an American Patriot
- Bloody Sunday Riot
- Left for Dead
- Fort Smith, Arkansas
- July 2013 Events
- Casey Tefertiller
- When were photos first put on wanted posters?
- I’ve read that Sheriff John Behan was a scoundrel in Tombstone during the trouble years. Is that the case?
- Cheyenne / The Boy From Oklahoma
- The Mysterious Journey of Billy the Kid’s Trigger Finger
- The Missing Lincoln
- Billy the Kid is best known for his time in New Mexico, but did he also spend time in Arizona?
- New Releases-Historical Fiction
- New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction
- Hot Summer Reads