Category: Trips

Tombstone Epitaph

Tombstone AZ

In the 1950s the TV show Tombstone was narrated by the editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, so it was cool to visit the place.
An original printing press at the Epitaph.
Printing equipment.
Press plate.
Flipped over, the plate can be read.

Gunfight at the OK Corral

Tombstone AZ

This is really the primary visitor site in Tombstone. They do a reenactment of the famous 1881 gunfight.
They do a little kitschy drama around the history of the gunfight.
The good guys.
The bad guys.
Model of the gunfight.
Doc Holliday’s room.
Camilla S. Fly’s photography studio.
O.K. Corral office. Here is depicted “Honest” John Montgomery, one of the co-owners of the Corral.
Blacksmith.
Buckboard wagon.
Two-spring Phaeton and Piano box buggy.
Fire equipment.
Collection of saddles, including the saddle used by Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in the 1993 Tombstone movie.

Tombstone, Arizona

Great timing on our visit to Tombstone. We arrived in the middle of HELL-Dorado, Tombstone’s annual celebration. People were dressed up like it was 1881. And there were gunfights in the street all day! The town was packed! If we would have visited any other week, there would have been very few people here.

Big Nose Kate’s Saloon was the place to be for lunch!
Live music.
Stagecoach going through town.
Watching a gunfight.
Historic Birdcage Theater.
Wyatt Earp’s house.
Wyatt Earp statue.
Allen English’s adobe house, built 1882.
Tombstone Courthouse.
Edward L. Schieffelin, whose discoveries of silver in 1877 and 1878 nearby, led to the founding of Tombstone.

Arizona Haboob

Outside Tucson AZ

We had never heard of “Haboob” prior to this drive. Haboobs, or dust storms, are unexpected, unpredictable and can sweep across Arizona’s desert landscape at any time. Haboobs can be miles long and thousands of feet high. These can be brief but powerful, and can be blinding. We could see one developing here in the distance.
We are headed into a haboob here.
We were completely blinded for a couple seconds.