The supporting cast of this movie about the gunfight at the ok corral also features rex bell as virgil earp and victor jory as ike clanton. When prospector ed schieffelin set out from fort huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all hed find would be his own tombston. So much that the economy banks on it as the birdcage saloon was even featured on ghost hunters. On this tour, take a journey through town onboard the historic tombstone trolley bus and experience a taste of the wild west. Wyatt earp cleans up tombstone and faces the clanton gang. Learn more about the sights of tombstone on our things to do in tombstone page. Tombstone having tough time as shutdown bites tourism. Wyatt earp stock photos download 282 royalty free photos. Thinking that the rich colors of the mountains looked like a promising place. With richard dix, kent taylor, edgar buchanan, frances gifford. The town was established on a mesa above the goodenough mine. Wyatt earp cleans up tombstone and faces the clanton gang at the o.
In the 1800s, tombstone was a rowdy silvermining camp and the scene of a famous gunfight that enhanced its wicked reputation. Tombstone is a popular tourist destination, and through its wild west ways have calmed down over the decades, the town still preserves its oldtimey feel. Holliday was a dentist who had given up the business of filling. The infamous allen street, once full of bars, casinos, and bordellos has been restored to attract visitors.
Arizona start planning your arizona vacation with the official state visitors guide available in print, electronically, or both. In october of 1881, local law enforcement officers engaged a party of suspect criminals in a shootout. Tombstone touristdependent tombstone is not one of arizonas ghost towns, but the spread of covid19 has practically turned it into one, city officials said friday. Taking into account decades of preservation efforts, stories told by hollywood, performances on the town s streets, the fervor of earp historians and western history buffs, and global notions of the west,imagining tombstoneshows how the town s tenacity depends on far more than a usable past. Reenactments of the legendary gunfight at ok corral are held inside the ok corral on allen street at noon, 2 and 3. Behind him not long afterward came his brothers, virgil,morgan,james, and warren earp, and also one john holliday. The mining camp was born when a prospector named ed schieffelin looked out on the mountains from where he stood at camp huachuca, arizona. Tombstone arizonaaka the town too tough to dieis a 19thcentury gold rush village in arizona, now preserved as a living openair museum. However, the people of tombstone are dedicated to keeping the legend alive. So when the prospector found silver, he named his first mine the. Fill out the form to request your free travel packet, which includes an arizona official state visitors guide and an arizona state highway map. Tombstone may best be known as the western town that doc holliday, johnny ringo and wyatt earp once roamed the streets. Tombstone showcased its resiliency for the world to see when after each tragedy the town quickly rebuilt and resumed normalcy.
Join us again next week for this is america in voa. Join us for shopping, dining, sidewalk sales, mariachis, gunfights in the park, medicine show, cowboy quick draw, the wild west witches and more. Mccormack has produced a book that is deeper and broader than it seems, placing the iconic western town in. A place to share your photos, postcards, and memorabilia related to the. After silver was discovered in tombstone, arizona in 1878, the settlement.
Tombstone in arizona where the gunfight at the ok corral was fought in the usa. Traveling back in time to tombstone tombstone, one of the most famous towns from americas old west, is a unique mix of authenticity and tourism with a. Within two years of its founding, although far distant from any other metropolitan area, tombstone had a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous dance halls and brothels. By the time these photographs were taken, the nation was deep in the great depression, and tombstone was almost a ghost town. It all began during the 1870s when indian scout ed schieffelin was scouring apache country for rocks. Traveling back in time to tombstone tombstone, one of the most famous towns from americas old west, is a unique mix of authenticity and tourism with a heavy dose of cheese. This is the historical town where the legendary ok corral gunfight took place in 1881.
Roy barcroft, spencer charters, edgar buchanan, victor jory, don castle, blackjack ward, paul sutton, emmett vogan. The bulletriddled story of the man too tough for dodge city. From opera and theater to dance halls and brothels, tombstone offered muchneeded entertainment to the miners after a long shift underground. Aug 12, 2016 there is much speculation today that tombstones spirits of cowboys and lawmen still haunt the town. More about tombstones colorful history can be found here. One of the last frontier boomtowns in the old american west, tombstone prospered mostly in the late 1800s. Soldiers warned him all he would find in the wilderness would be his own tombstone. In 1886, the mines flooded and hit rock bottom, and the miners moved on to the next claim.