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Tombstone was saved from becoming a ghost town partly because it remained the Cochise County seat until 1929, when county residents voted to move county offices to nearby Bisbee.
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The program in the first year was devoted to retellings of tales from Tombstone, the second year to classic TV Western.
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.
Southeastern Arizona near Tombstone in 1887Tombstone, near the Mexican border, was formally founded in March 1879 and was a rapidly growing frontier mining boomtown.
John Clum, publisher of The Tombstone Epitaph, had helped organize the " Committee of Safety " ( a vigilance committee ) in Tombstone in late September 1881, and was elected as the city's first mayor under the new city charter of 1881.
Virgil was named Deputy U. S. Marshal just before their arrival in Tombstone.
Doc Holliday, who had saved Wyatt Earp's life at one time and was a very close friend, had been living in Prescott and making a living as a gambler since late 1879, where he first met future Tombstone Sheriff and sometimes gambler Johnny Behan.
After silver was discovered in the area, Tombstone grew extremely rapidly.
Paul finally became sheriff in April 1881, but it was too late to reappoint Wyatt Earp as deputy sheriff because on January 1, 1881, the eastern portion of Pima County containing Tombstone had been split off into the new Cochise County, which would need its own sheriff, based in the county's largest city, Tombstone.
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.
However, Virgil at the same time continued to hold his position of deputy U. S. marshal, and it was in this federal capacity that he continued to chase robbers of stage coaches outside Tombstone city limits.
Wyatt Earp ( who was not wearing a badge ) encouraged his brother, Tombstone Deputy City Marshal Morgan Earp, to intervene.
Both Frank and Billy were armed with a revolver and a rifle, as was the custom for riders in the country outside Tombstone.
According to the chief newspaper of the town, The Tombstone Epitaph, " Wyatt Earp stood up and fired in rapid succession, as cool as a cucumber, and was not hit.
The Tombstone Epitaph was more restrained in its language:
Virgil Earp was ambushed on the streets of Tombstone on the evening of December 28, 1881, by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.
Wyatt returned to Tombstone to find the men had already surrendered, though they thought it was for lesser charges.
Billy " the Kid " Claiborne was killed in a gunfight in Tombstone in late 1882, by gunman Franklin Leslie.
Virgil Earp was ambushed on the streets of Tombstone on the evening of December 28, 1881, by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building.
Virgil left Tombstone for California after Morgan was killed.
Seeking vengeance, Wyatt returns to Tombstone and takes the open job of town marshall, meeting with the local powers, Doc Holliday and the Clantons, again and again in order to find out who was responsible.
The county seat was Tombstone until 1929 when it moved to Bisbee.
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Tombstone joined a criminal organization headed by Hammerhead and the Chameleon, and then saved Robertson from the Hobgoblin so that he could kill Robertson himself.
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Tombstone of a Roman auxiliary trooper from Cologne, Germany.
At WrestleMania XIV he served as " guest ring announcer " during a match between Kane and the Undertaker, before which he took a Tombstone Piledriver from Kane ( nicknamed " The Big Red Machine " for his red ring attire ).
Though not universally liked by the townspeople, the Earps tended to protect the interests of the town's business owners and residents, although Virgil's brother Wyatt helped keep a Cowboy from being lynched after he accidentally killed Tombstone Marshal Fred White.
In the 1880s, illegal smuggling and theft of cattle, alcohol, and tobacco across the Mexico – United States border about from Tombstone were common.
To reduce crime in Tombstone, on April 19, 1881, the Tombstone's city council passed an ordinance prohibiting anyone from carrying a deadly weapon.
On the evening of March 15, 1881, three Cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear & Company stagecoach carrying US $ 26, 000 in silver bullion ( about $ in today's dollars ) enroute from Tombstone to Benson, Arizona, the nearest freight terminal.
On the morning of Tuesday, October 25, 1881, the day before the gunfight, Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury drove in a spring wagon from Chandler's Milk Ranch at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains to Tombstone.
They arrived from Antelope Springs, east of Tombstone, where they had been rounding up stock with their brothers and had breakfasted with Ike and Tom the day before.
The three main Tombstone corrals were all west of 4th street, a block or two from where Wyatt saw the Cowboys buying cartridges.
" William Clanton, Frank and Thomas McLaury, came to their deaths in the town of Tombstone on October 26, 1881, from the effects of pistol and gunshot wounds inflicted by Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp, and one — Holliday, commonly called ' Doc Holliday '.
On about December 14, Judge Spicer received a threatening letter from " A Miner ," which told him that he should leave Tombstone or lose his life.
He responded with a defiant letter published by The Tombstone Epitaph, stating he would not bow to threats from the rabble of the city.
* The Inquest answers reprinted from the Tombstone Daily Nugget
* The. 45 Long Colt shot clip appears in the historical introduction to the film Tombstone, as do numerous other clips from the film, notably the man shot while attempting to escape the robbers.
* Union County graveyards from Oregon Tombstone Transcription Project
For example, the railhead in Benson was about 25 miles from Tombstone, and was the closest rail connection to it until 1882, when a feeder line was laid from Benson to Contention City.
In 1929, the county seat was moved from Tombstone, Arizona, to Bisbee, where it remains.
Far distant from any other metropolitan city, by mid-1881 Tombstone boasted 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 dancing halls and brothels.
When Cochise County was formed from the eastern portion of Pima County on February 1, 1881, Tombstone became the new county seat.
In early March, 1880, the Schieffelin's Tombstone Mining and Milling Company which owned the Tough Nut mine, among others, was sold to investors from Philadelphia.
Tombstone sherriff and constituents, an illustration from Mexico, California and Arizona ; Being a New and Revised Edition of Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces.
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