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Will This Bell Toll Again?

by | Jun 9, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Old West Saviors

Tombstone’s first Episcopal Church says “Yes!” On January 21, 1882, a 24-year-old divinity student wrote in his diary, “So begins my journey West. God grant that I may do some good.…” The good Endicott Peabody did in the forlorn place he was sent—a rough and rowdy mining town that had just witnessed a devastating gun battle near its O.K. Corral—was to build St. Paul’s Church, giving Tombstone and Arizona Territory its first Episcopal Church.   [caption id="attachment


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