Tombstone is only 10 miles from where we are camped and because we had been there before we didn't chose to see the gunfight at the OK corral.
We took a trolley tour and then walked main street.
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| main street blocked off from cars |
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| the Cochise County Courthouse |
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| City hall |
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| Bella Union Restaurant popular in the day |
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| they had seafood brought in fresh daily or so we were told |
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| street view of the Masonic Lodge built 1881 |
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| we ate lunch here |
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| lots of interesting shops |
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| Tombstone's first lodging house |
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we wanted to go in here for lunch but the place was packed -
everyone wanted to get waited on by the buxom gals! |
We paid the entry fee and walked through the famous Birdcage Theatre. Lots of action happened in this theatre in the day and lots of famous people of the times walked through its doors.
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| the famous or infamous Birdcage Theatre |
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Fatima also known as Little Egypt,
a belly dancer who presented this mural to the Birdcage
Fatima played the Birdcage in 1882 |
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| one of several original light fixtures - now fitted for electricity |
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| the original bar and bullet holes to prove it! |
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| balcony boxes |
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if you had enough money, you could pay to watch an evening's performance
sitting above the main floor |
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| Black Mariah, Tombstone's Boothill hearse |
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| one of many gambling tables |
Walking down the streets there are several people dressed in period costume. Most are actors or performers in the shows in Tombstone. Some of the characters are there to hawk the next performance of the gunfight or play.
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| the Sheriff taking it easy |
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| walking along with a suitcase and shotgun in hand |
We talked to one of the cowboy hawkers and he told us that tourism is down considerably. This should be the high season with the streets packed and it just isn't happening.
On our way out of town we stopped at the Boothill Cemetery. Boothill graveyard was laid out as a burial plot in 1878. It was the burial place of the town's first pioneers and was used until sometime around 1884.
Boothill laid neglected for years and much of the old cemetery went back to nature. Years of research and hard work by interested citizens of the town helped preserve the main part of the cemetery that exists today. A flood also destroyed a lot of the graves.
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there is no charge to see the cemetery but if you want a guide to the graves
it is $3.00 and that goes to the upkeep of the cemetery |
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| Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Tom McLaury three killed at the OK Corral |
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| the graveyard has been put into a semblance of order by interested citizens of Tombstone |
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the men who rode with John Heath, they were legally hanged for
killing several people during a robbery of a store in Bisbee |
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| an interesting grave enclosure |
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Lester Moore was a Wells Fargo agent at Naco and had
a dispute with a man over a package. Both died. |
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Mrs. Ah Lum had great influence among the CHinese residents.
Some believed she had Tong affiliation in China. |
These were just some of the interesting graves in this cemetery.
We were told that once upon a time there were 2000 grave sites but this cemetery now only contains 250 and a lot of those are unknown. A lot of history lost but then man cannot control the weather.
