We were able to have something to eat and consume an adult beverage while we watched the whole show.
This is the cool dude who spoke previous to the re-enactmentof a "Day in Tomstone" informing us of the factual history of the O.K. Corral gunfight as well as some history of Tombstone.
Who also had a role in the re-enactment as the Sheriff. After some gambling and drinking the gun fights started.
Well there had to Mexicans involved eh!
It was cool and from what I have read incidents like this this took place regularly in Tombstone in the 1880's.
This poor guy got shot the fight was over a girl of course!
After the show, we wandered around, the large bar in this picture is original, although in the 1880's stools were not provided.
We thought this sign was priceless.
We thought this sign was priceless.
The Silver Nugget, which is now divided up into little stores.
Inside the Bird Cage Theatre, the bar is original and was a Dance Hall in the 1880's, there is a bullet lodged in the right hand lower part of the bar, left over from the rowdy days, plus there are is a stair case going up the "girls rooms" which is worn thin from use.
Inside the Bird Cage Theatre, the bar is original and was a Dance Hall in the 1880's, there is a bullet lodged in the right hand lower part of the bar, left over from the rowdy days, plus there are is a stair case going up the "girls rooms" which is worn thin from use.
The Golden Eagle Brewery, 1879.
We did not chose the best day to visit Tombstone as it was very windy which here means the dust and sand is blowing around, we sure did feel some grit between our teeth but a good first visit, will choose a calm day for our next visit!
Some history of Tombstone from Wikepedia:
In the summer of 1877 prospector Ed Schieffelin was working the hills east of the San Pedro River in the southeast portion of the Arizona Territory, when he came across a vein of very rich silver ore in a high plateau called Goose Flats. When Schieffelin filed his mining claim he named it "The Tombstone", after a warning given him by a passing soldier. While telling the soldier about his rock collecting experiences, the soldier told him that the only rock he was likely to collect among the waterless hills and warring Apaches of the area would be his own tombstone.
The town of Tombstone was founded in 1879, taking its name from the mining claim, and soon became a boomtown. Fueled by mineral wealth, Tombstone was a city of 1000 by the beginning of 1881, and within another year Tombstone had become the seat of a new county (Cochise County) with a population between 5,000 and 15,000, and services including refrigeration (with ice cream and later even ice skating), running water, telegraph and limited telephone service. Capitalists and businessmen moved in from the eastern U.S. Mining were carried out by immigrants from Europe, chiefly Ireland and Germany. An extensive service industry (laundry, construction, restaurants, hotels, etc.) was provided by Chinese and other immigrants.
Without railroad access the increasingly sophisticated Tombstone was relatively isolated, deep in a Federal territory that was largely unpopulated desert and wilderness. Tombstone and its surrounding countryside also became known as one of the deadliest regions in the West. Uncivilized southern gangs from the surrounding countryside, known as "cow-boys", were at odds with the northern capitalists and immigrant miners who ran the city and mines. On October 26, 1881 this situation famously exploded in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, leading to a continued family and political feud that resulted in multiple deaths.
Speculation was common that Tombstone would become a powerful metropolis.
Since Tombstone was in the desert, a company built a pipeline to supply the town with water. No sooner was this pipeline built than Tombstone's silver mines struck water.
As a result of relative lack of water and quick wooden construction, Tombstone experienced major fires in June 1881 and May 1882. The second fire was particularly destructive and signaled the end of the classic old boomtown mining city. After the mid-1880s, when the silver mines had been tapped out, the main pump failed, causing many mines to be flooded with deep groundwater, and Tombstone declined rapidly. The U.S. census found it had fewer than 1900 residents in 1890 and fewer than 700 residents in 1900. The towns population is around 1800 today.
If you want more information on Tombstone here are a couple of links:
http://www.arizona-leisure.com/tombstone-arizona.html
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/tombston.htm
The town of Tombstone was founded in 1879, taking its name from the mining claim, and soon became a boomtown. Fueled by mineral wealth, Tombstone was a city of 1000 by the beginning of 1881, and within another year Tombstone had become the seat of a new county (Cochise County) with a population between 5,000 and 15,000, and services including refrigeration (with ice cream and later even ice skating), running water, telegraph and limited telephone service. Capitalists and businessmen moved in from the eastern U.S. Mining were carried out by immigrants from Europe, chiefly Ireland and Germany. An extensive service industry (laundry, construction, restaurants, hotels, etc.) was provided by Chinese and other immigrants.
Without railroad access the increasingly sophisticated Tombstone was relatively isolated, deep in a Federal territory that was largely unpopulated desert and wilderness. Tombstone and its surrounding countryside also became known as one of the deadliest regions in the West. Uncivilized southern gangs from the surrounding countryside, known as "cow-boys", were at odds with the northern capitalists and immigrant miners who ran the city and mines. On October 26, 1881 this situation famously exploded in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, leading to a continued family and political feud that resulted in multiple deaths.
Speculation was common that Tombstone would become a powerful metropolis.
Since Tombstone was in the desert, a company built a pipeline to supply the town with water. No sooner was this pipeline built than Tombstone's silver mines struck water.
As a result of relative lack of water and quick wooden construction, Tombstone experienced major fires in June 1881 and May 1882. The second fire was particularly destructive and signaled the end of the classic old boomtown mining city. After the mid-1880s, when the silver mines had been tapped out, the main pump failed, causing many mines to be flooded with deep groundwater, and Tombstone declined rapidly. The U.S. census found it had fewer than 1900 residents in 1890 and fewer than 700 residents in 1900. The towns population is around 1800 today.
If you want more information on Tombstone here are a couple of links:
http://www.arizona-leisure.com/tombstone-arizona.html
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/tombston.htm
Upon our return home, we spent our evening as usual, walking dogs, chatting online with friends and relaxing. We are totally happy here.
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