It was almost a different kind of Tombstone gunfight. Sam Purdy, editor of The Epitaph, challenged Independent Editor Patrick Hamilton to a duel...
The Pen Is Mightier…? Two Tombstone editors nearly had a duel.
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Tom Clavin’s Tombstone New from the New York Times Bestselling Author
The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the O.K. Corral by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City...
The Under The Bed Shootout A Tombstone fight like no other.
A 1908 gunfight was one of the most unusual in Tombstone’s history. On June 20, Marcello Mendez shot a woman three times in a local house. The...
Telephone Service To Tombstone By the time telephone line was strung, the Earp’s already left Tombstone.
During an interview with John Flood in the 1920s, Wyatt Earp stated he received a phone call from Bob Paul in Benson following the attempted...
Love? And Marriage The Spences and their role in the Morgan Earp murder.
For Pete Spence, marriage was a godsend of sorts. He was accused in the March 18, 1882 assassination of Morgan Earp in Tombstone. Spence’s wife...
The Russells And Earps Actors Bing and Kurt Russell and Tombstone
Kurt Russell made a big impression on Western fans with his portrayal of Wyatt Earp in 1993’s “Tombstone.” There are family connections to the Earp...
The Day The Rails Reached Tucson There was cause for great celebration in Tucson on March 20th, 1880 when the Southern Pacific rolled into town marking the end of those hot, dusty stagecoach trips across barren deserts.
The building of the transcontinental railroad along the 32nd Parallel was a major milestone in Arizona history. Up to then the main means of...
All In The Family
Tombstone finally gets its due and Jeb Rosebrook rides on.
Death of a Cowboy, the Birth of a Legend
The final, fateful days of John Ringo.
Were all the Witnesses at the Spicer Hearing Sworn in?
Were all the witnesses at the Spicer Hearing sworn in? Tom Betts Anaheim, California Some 30 witnesses testified at the Spicer Hearing inquest into...
Death at his Elbow
If you took all the alcohol out of the Wild West era, you would certainly save a forest of trees, because all of the printed stories of shooting,...
A Cow-Boy in Retirement
Pete Spence is best known for his time as a Cow-boy in the Tombstone time of troubles. He may have been involved in the shooting of Virgil Earp and...