Arthur once threatened to impose martial law. However, the bloody tumult in the community was such that President Chester A. Clum unabashedly proclaimed, 'Tombstone is a city set upon a hill, promising to vie with ancient Rome, in a fame different in character but no less important.'
In his first column in the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper, editor John P. He staked a claim and called it 'The Tombstone,' mocking the warning given by soldiers at nearby Fort Huachuca who scoffed, 'All you'll ever find is your tombstone.'Īt its peak, buoyed by the silver rush, the town had a population of about 14,500. A prospector, Ed Schieffelin, discovered a thick vein of silver in a slope near a flowing spring in the southeastern corner of Arizona.
Tombstone, which proudly calls itself a town 'too tough to die,' was born in 1879. The truth is better than a romantic myth.At least two participants, Wyatt Earp and John Henry 'Doc' Holliday, have been notched into popular history as two of the Old West's greatest gun slingers. I returned from my journey somewhat wiser and more aware of the harsh reality of this town’s history. This fact seems to tarnish the romantic gloss Hollywood has wrought over this legendary hero.
Two of Wyatt Earp’s wives (he had been married three times, with the third marriage lasting until his death) were former “soiled doves.” One of the wives, Mattie, had to return to her former profession and was driven to suicide when Wyatt abandoned her. This made me think of the doves that were living above the patio in the house where I was staying in Phoenix, only they should have more rightly been called “soiling doves” as they frequently soiled the nest and its surroundings. They were sometimes referred to in those days as “soiled doves,” which sounds a bit condescending. I also found out much about the sex trade workers who lived in Tombstone in Wyatt Earp’s time. I think you’ll agree that even as a dummy, Wyatt Earp is quite heroic. I know, you are very jealous dear readers, because you weren’t there to witness it yourself. For latecomers like me, they had an ever better show on hand. Usually, the gunfight is reenacted daily by real people (a very inaccurate portrayal, compared to the dummy one), but I’d arrived too late for that. Yes indeed, this is what they don’t tell you in the history textbooks. All the participants in the shootout (Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil Earp, Doc Holiday, the Clanton Brothers, and Frank and Tom McLaury) were not real people at all but were in fact large, lifelike dummies.
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Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and his gambler friend Doc Holiday didn’t look like Hollywood movie stars. You see, the truth is, life in the old west wasn’t as glamorous as it was portrayed to be by movies like Tombstone (starring Kurt Russel). I was very excited to see the recreation of the gunfight, but I was in for quite a surprise… On this exact spot, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp and his brothers faced off against the most notorious gang of outlaws in the old west. There I stood at the actual site of the OK Corral in the blazing Arizona heat. If you look around, you can see the gunfighters, just as they stood on October 26, 1881…” said a disembodied voice from the speakers. The West’s most famous gunfight began where you are now standing.
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