The program in the first year was devoted to retellings of tales from Tombstone, the second year to classic TV Western.

Western story tellers and film makers made as much money in Tombstone as anyone, thanks to the arrival of Wyatt Earp and his brothers in 1879.

Tombstone is a 1993 American Western directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre ( who was also the original director, but was replaced early in production ) and starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe and Dana Delany, and narrated by Robert Mitchum.

For the Western genre as a whole, Tombstone ranks number 12 in the list of highest grossing films since 1979.

The actor migrated to Los Angeles where he began to carve out a niche playing guest roles in Western television programs of the period including Wagon Train, Tombstone Territory, Rawhide, Trackdown, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Big Valley and Gunsmoke.

Late in his career, Cosmatos received more praise for Tombstone, a 1993 Western movie about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.

His other appearances include: Wagon Train ( three times ), The Adventures of Kit Carson ( twice as Henry Jordan ), the Western anthology series Frontier ( twice ), Sheriff of Cochise, Pony Express, Behind Closed Doors, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, Trackdown, The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Tombstone Territory, Whispering Smith, The Twilight Zone (" The Grave ", " The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank ," and " Jess-Belle "), Wanted: Dead or Alive, Overland Trail, Bat Masterson, The Rebel ( TV series ), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Man and the Challenge, Combat, The Mod Squad ), I Spy, Perry Mason, The Incredible Hulk, The Fugitive (" Terror At High Point "), Stagecoach West, and In the Heat of the Night.

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die is a Western film released in 1942, starring Richard Dix and Kent Taylor, and directed by William McGann.

Western story tellers and Hollywood film makers made as much money in Tombstone as anyone, thanks to the arrival of Wyatt Earp and his brothers in 1879.

Mohr guest starred seven times in the 1957-1962 television series Maverick, twice playing Western outlaw Doc Holliday, a role he reprised once more in " Doc Holliday in Durango ", a 1958 episode of the television western series Tombstone Territory starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham.

Southeastern Arizona near Tombstone in 1887Tombstone, near the Mexican border, was formally founded in March 1879 and was a rapidly growing frontier mining boomtown.

Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory.

The Tombstone Epitaph was founded on May 1, 1880.

* The Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate, founded in 1776 near the present day Tombstone

* December 28 – Virgil Earp is ambushed in Tombstone and loses the use of his left arm.

Originally a stage actor, Kilmer is best known for his roles as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's The Doors, Doc Holliday in Tombstone and Bruce Wayne / Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever.

Corral was a gunfight that took place at about 3: 00 p. m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, and is generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Old West.

Tombstone resident George Parson wrote in his diary, " A Cowboy is a rustler at times, and a rustler is a synonym for desperado — bandit, outlaw, and horse thief.

Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.

Clayton is also known for its Whiskey Bottle Tombstone, which was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not !.

) Wyatt Earp, of Tombstone, Arizona fame, stayed in Nome for a short period, but little is known of his activities there.

The rail stretched between Tombstone and Patagonia and is no longer in operation today.

The Fort is the major employment for the town, however with retirees moving in and tourism starting to become a major business, because of the close proximity to Tombstone and Kartchner Caverns State Park, Huachuca City is a growing area.

Also indicated in the CER 2009 Economic Outlook publication, the Arizona DEC estimates the Sierra Vista Area size is approximately 75, 000, which includes outlying areas of Sierra Vista Southeast Census Designated Place ( CDP ), Huachuca City, Tombstone, Whetstone, Hereford and unincorporated surrounding areas.

Among a number of pioneer Boot Hill cemeteries in the Old West, Boot Hill in Tombstone is among the most well-known.

In contrast to its heyday, when it featured saloons open 24 hours and numerous houses of prostitution, Tombstone is now a staid community with few businesses open late.

The Tombstone Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District.

The area is also the home of Hollins University in addition to four properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Black Horse Tavern-Bellvue Hotel and Office, Harshbarger House, the Hollins College Quadrangle, and Old Tombstone.

* In the film Tombstone, Billy Clanton ( played by Thomas Hayden Church ) tries to bait Doc Holiday ( Val Kilmer ), who is playing a Chopin nocturne on the piano, by saying " Is that ' Old Dog Tray?

In Tombstone in January 1882, he told Johnny Ringo ( as recorded by diarist Parsons ), " All I want of you is ten paces out in the street.

Although Frank McLaury is sometimes erroneously stated to have been hit by three bullets ( based on the next-day news accounts in Tombstone papers ), the coroner's inquest found Frank was hit only in the stomach and through the back of the head under his ear ; therefore either Holliday or Wyatt missed Frank.

The last of the three later supposed photos of Holliday — in which the subject has a more open overcoat, a more open vest ( allowing the bowtie cords to be seen ), an upturned shirt collar, and is holding a bowler hat ( derby hat )— exists as a print in the Cochise County Courthouse Museum in Tombstone.

It's later revealed that he is the " Master Planner ", and has been in preparation for a gang war between the criminal organizations of his, The Big Man's ( Tombstone ), and Silvermane's.

Under this part of the Mule Mountains are many mining tunnels dug in pursuit of the rich copper ore. Today, Bisbee ( also known as the " mile-high city ," at elevation ) is largely a tourist town and retirement community along the slopes of Tombstone Canyon in the heart of the Mules.

Tensions between the Earps and the McLaurys further increased when another passenger stage on the ' Sandy Bob Line ' in the Tombstone area, bound for Bisbee, was held up on September 8, 1881.

The stolen tombstone became the inspiration for the World's Richest Tombstone Race, held during Fort Sumner's Old Fort Days Celebration every June.

After Alistair Smythe, Kingpin's right hand man, stole the Tablet from Dr. Curt Connors and Tombstone, Silvermane's new hired man, had kidnapped Connors, Hammerhead figured out Tombstone had also kidnapped Kingpin's wife, Vanessa, even though Kingpin didn't know about it until Silvermane sent him a note, telling him he held her hostage.

When Hammerhead instigates a fight a summit held between Silvermane, Tombstone, and Doctor Octopus by drugging Silver Sable, Silvermane uses a hidden hydraulic exoskeleton, which provides him with superstrength and energy blasts, to fight with.

He reprinted this in the The Tombstone Epitaph on July 30, 1880.

Currently, tourism and western memorabilia are the main commercial enterprises ; a July 2005 CNN article notes that Tombstone receives approximately 450, 000 tourist visitors each year.

Most of the concert was recorded at Wembley Stadium on 7 July, but " License to Kill " and " Tombstone Blues " come from St James ' Park, Newcastle on 5 July, and " I and I " and " Girl from the North Country " were recorded at Slane Castle, Ireland on 8 July.