Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone, revered by tourists for its Old West appeal, is filled with authentic restorations and nostalgic replicas of its heyday.  Saloons, casinos and general posts-many still bearing bullet holes from their wild and woolly days-line its historic streets.

Bird Cage Theatre
Tombstone, Arizona

Preserved as it was in the roaring 1880's, the Bird Cage Theatre was the place where tired miners, crafty gamblers and feared gunmen came together to see the bawdiest shows in the West.

Boothill Graveyard
Tombstone, Arizona

The crude grave markers in Tombstone's Boothill Graveyard only hint at how wild the West really was in 1881!

Tombstone, Arizona

On October 26, 1881, the Earp Brothers-Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan-and Doc Holliday walked northwest on Fremont Street toward the OK Corral, to disarm the Clanton faction.  Tombstone's City Marshall, Virgil Earp, demanded the cowboys thrown down their weapons and throw up their arms.  Within 30 seconds the bodies of Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton lay in the street (Virgil, Morgan, and Holliday suffered minor wounds.) One thing is known for sure-one of the Earps deliberately fired first, offering the cowboys little opportunity to obey Virgil's order.

Tombstone, Arizona

Looking up the covered boardwalk in front of the Crystal Palace Saloon on Allen Street in "The Town Too Tough To Die".

virgil Earp's Home

About the center of this picture there is a building with a red roof, according to the town historian that is the home of virgil Earp.  It is still a home today.

Wyatt Earp and Morgan Earp's Home site

the corralled area in the foreground of this picture is the location where Morgan earp's home used to stand.  during the 1980's, tombstone had a fire which destroyed much of the old building and surrounding vegetation.  wyatt's home was one of the building destroyed in that fire.  In the center background the white building next to the telephone poles stands the home of wyatt earp.  Wyatt's home is a store.

Tombstone, Arizona
Boothill Graveyard

Famous grave makers in old Boothill Graveyard in "The Town Too Tough To Die."

This of course if my wife (TJ) and I.  This was taken in one of the shops in Tombstone April of 1996.

Historic O. K. Corral
Tombstone, Arizona

Antique buggies, coaches, wagons and burial coaches are on display at the world-famous O. K. Corral on Allen Street.  "The Town Too Tough To Die."

This was taken in Tombstone February 2002, I had a beard and moustache then.  The lady taking the picture said I look like a natural.  Everything in the picture was costume but the jeans, they were mine.

This is the second picture taken of me.  Ain't I just a kick.

This is from April of 1996, when TJ and I got ours together.  The lady taking it again said that I look like a natural in the picture.

Tombstone, Arizona

The World's Largest Rose Bush is a white Lady Banksia.  The original root came from Scotland in 1885.  From a single trunk it spreads over an arbor that covers over 8,000 square feet.  Each spring it is covered with millions of tiny white blossoms.

TJ standing under the rosebush canopy.  We were told by the town historian and the lady at the shop that this is documented in the Guiness World Book of Records as the world's largest rose bush.

A view of the top of the rose bush.  A platform was built on the east end of the yard so that visitors may get a better view of the blossoms and the overall size of the bush.  I will say this it is a very impressive sight to see.

Tombstone, Arizona

Signs! Signs! Everywhere signs point to events played out in "the town too tough to die." In 1877 prospector Ed Schiefflin discovered silver near present-day Tombstone.  Within a few years, the once quiet mining camp claimed some 10,000 in- habitants.  Seeking opportunities and fortunes from the developing American West, men like the Earps, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons marked their spots in the annals of American history.

The Tombstone Stage-still running today through the streets of Tombstone.

A map drawn by Wyatt Earp shows detail of where the gunfight was and the location of each man at the corral prior to the first shot.

TJ snapped this shot from the windshield of our van while on Interstate 10 going to Tombstone.  There is honestly nothing like a sunrise in the Southwest.

A signed photo of the cast from the movie Tombstone.

This is for TJ, a very nice photo of val kilmer as doc Holliday from the movie tombstone.

The cochise county court house on tough nut street in tombstone.  a digital photo.

a closer digital photo of the court house.