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 Tombstone was a town tents, shacks and even wickiups in those first months of its existence and was in a constant state of transition.
It may be of interest, that the first Tombstone jail, erected by who first discovered silver, leading to the fou

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows