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Virgil Earp was the town constable in Prescott, Arizona Territory, and he wrote to Wyatt about the opportunities in the silver-mining boomtown of Tombstone. He later wrote, "In 1879 Dodge was beginning to lose much of the snap which had given it a charm to men of reckless blood, and I decided to move to Tombstone, which was just building up a ...
The town was established on Goose Flats, a mesa above the Goodenough Mine. Within two years of its founding, although far distant from any other metropolitan area, Tombstone had 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 dance halls and brothels.
The Tombstone Epitaph building – The Tombstone Epitaph newspaper was established in this building, constructed in 1880 at 11 S. 5th Street, as a Republican paper under the operation of John P. Clum, Thomas Sorin, and later that year, Charles Reppy. [1] [8] The Bird Cage Theatre – The theater was built in 1881 at 535 E. Allen Street. It was ...
He was played by Monte Markham in 1967's Hour of the Gun, Markham’s feature-length movie debut, in which the character is the sheriff of a neighboring county recruited by Wyatt Earp into the posse (historically inaccurate); by Todd Allen in Wyatt Earp (1994), where he is a Tombstone deputy marshal working for Wyatt and Virgil; and by Michael ...
At around 1:30–2:00 pm, after Tom McLaury had been pistol-whipped by Wyatt, Clanton's 19-year-old younger brother Billy Clanton and Tom's older brother Frank McLaury arrived in town. They had heard from their neighbor, Ed Frink, that Clanton had been stirring up trouble in town overnight, and they had ridden into town on horseback to back up ...
Sir Yeardley’s step-grandson ordered a tombstone for himself in the 1680s with the same inscription as the black limestone one. This led researchers to suspect that the 1627 tombstone belonged ...
Johnny Ringo, son of Martin and Mary Peters Ringo, had distant Dutch ancestry, [2] and was born in what later became the small town of Greens Fork, Clay Township, Wayne County, Indiana. His family moved to Liberty, Missouri, in 1856.
Town name Other name(s) County Established Disestablished Remarks Anderson: Macoupin: Appleton: Knox: Barr: Macoupin: Benjaminville: McLean: Bethel: Clay: Bloomfield