Ben Sippy is best known as the man who beat Virgil Earp in the election for Tombstone marshal in 1880—and then suddenly (and somewhat mysteriously)...
Outlaw Turned Lawman Turned Outlaw The strange tale of Ben Sippy.
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Eyewitness To Mayhem?
Did Big Nose Kate watch the Tombstone shootout?
Creative Medicine The Tombstone doctor found new ways to treat patients.
Dr. George Goodfellow is best known as the Tombstone physician who tended to the dying and wounded from the OK Corral shootout. But he did much...
Birth Of A Lawman
Civil War veteran Virgil Earp was just settling down in Prescott when he joined a posse. his life was never the same.
Pastor John Clum? The Tombstone stalwart nearly became a minister.
Except for illness, Tombstone mayor and Epitaph founder John Clum might have walked a very different road. After finishing prep school, he decided...
Tombstone, Arizona
The frontier town toughs out its latest business bust.
The Tombstone Reporter Clara Brown told the world about The Town Too Tough To Die.
Clara Spalding Brown is one of the most important chroniclers of Tombstone during its heyday. She and her husband moved to town in 1880, and almost...
Well-Heeled, Bedraggled and Badged
Ask The Marshall.
Was He…or Wasn’t He? Popular culture’s portrayal of Breakenridge is likely unfair.
History is not always kind to people. Take Billy Breakenridge, a Cochise County deputy under John Behan during Tombstone’s troubled times. Movies...
Not A Big Name But John Rockfellow had a big impact on Southeast Arizona.
John Rockfellow was a big figure in Tombstone’s history, even if his name isn’t well known. He moved to the area in 1881 at age 23 and established...
Tombstone’s Jails Tombstone’s first jail or lockup was an adobe structure on Fremont St. near the one built in 1882 that stands there today...
Locations of the offices and jails in Tombstone before the completion of the county courthouse and city hall in 1882 are difficult to pin down as...
The Pen Is Mightier…? Two Tombstone editors nearly had a duel.
It was almost a different kind of Tombstone gunfight. Sam Purdy, editor of The Epitaph, challenged Independent Editor Patrick Hamilton to a duel...