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Architecture, saloons, some shops, mountains and deserts around, handsome cowboys
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Some kitchy "tourist attractions", handsome cowboys
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Discover the American Old West
Boothill Graveyard-the USA's "Old West"
TheTravelSlut Says: Boothill Graveyard is open to the public without fee, and a popular stop for tourists visiting Tombstone because it incorporates much of the history within the cemetary.Buried here are outlaws with their victims, suicides, and hangings, legal and otherwise, along with...
Yaqui Says: The Can Can Restaurant ws established in 1879 by Quong Kee. It was one of Tombstone's best know restaurants. In 1886 it was purchased by John Henninger who turned it into a first class eating establishment. It had a number of properietors until 1921. In 1n 1928, it became...
DesertVet Says: The Wyatt Earp Theater is a live gunfight & theatrical performance not to be missed! They give you a great history lesson on the town starting with the Native Americans, the Mexican-American War, the Silver boom and the violence which is the reason this ‘town too tough to...
Yaqui Says: The Birdcage was the most famous saloon in America from 1881 to 1889. It was one of the most wild night spot and a reputation for a town that would never be forgotten. Back in 1881 -1889 it witness 16 gunfights, 140 bullet holes, stabbings, and murder. What made the Birdcage...
Ed Schieffelin's Good Enough Mine 1878
Yaqui Says: The Good Enough Mine was discovered by Ed Shieffelin in 1878. Nowdays, the Good Enough Mine tour provides an educational look back into Tombstones past with help of its owners, Andree & Shirley DeJournett. The mine tour will take down in the belly of mining shaft and the...
Yaqui Says: Enjoy a 25 minute Historical Tour aboard the Tombstone Trolley Car as our expert conductors share with you the History, Legands and Lore that has shaped Tombstone into the "Town Too Tough to Die." Save your tickets for discounts on Gunfights, Museums, Mine Tours, Restaurants...
Yaqui Says: This Tombstone Cemetery gives mute testimony to the hardships of Western frontier life. The people buried here were housewives, painted ladies, outlaws, gamblers, miners, business men and women, blacksmiths, cowboys and those "who died with their boots on". Among its...
Sacred Heart Church Rose Tree 1885
Yaqui Says: In 1882, a second wooden Catholic Church building was constructed. This allowed the 1881 building to be used solely as a rectory. Again, Nellie Cashman spearheaded the construction efforts, raising money and borrowing a team of horses and a wagon to haul wood from the...
The Rose Tree 1885 "Worlds Largest!"
Yaqui Says: This is the "World's Largest Rose Bush",that usually blooms during the month of April. The rose is a white Lady Basksia and the root was sent from Scotland in 1881. The bush was planted to climb over the woodshed. Mr. Macia tore down the shed and built the trellis. The bush...
Yaqui Says: The fire of May 26th, 1881, destroyed the dwellings located here. In 1885, Mrs. Amelia Adamson built the Cochise House Hotel. That same year, Mrs. Adamson and Mrs. Mary Gee, a hotel guest, planted the rose bush in the hotel patio. The Rose bush had been sent to Mrs. Gee by a...
1 Review and 385 Opinions This is a very nice clean small motel. The owner is very nice and helpful! Very Clean rooms and...
2 Reviews and 142 Opinions You have to stay at this quaint motel. You're close enough to walk to town, but far enough to enjoy...
Longhorn Restaurant: Decent Breakfast
Basaic Says: The Longhorn Restaurant serves a pretty good breakfast. It also has steak, chicken, BBQ, etc. There is a full service bar. Hours are 7AM to 8 PM daily. I had a very good Western Omelet; but the potatoes were overcooked.
Nellie Cashman's: One of the Better Ones in Tombstone
Basaic Says: UPDATE: Nellie Cashman's is under new management and has a new name. Will write a tip for the new restaurant soon.Tombstone is not a place full of restaurants serving great food. In this environment, I would rate Nellie Cashman's above average. They serve steak, chicken,...
Helldorado Town: Rustic Charm~
Yaqui Says: This is not just a restaurant, but provides several types of entertainment. They even have a putt-putt coarse. and a stunt wild west show. We ate here and were happy with the food and service. It is rustic, so do not exspect anything fancy. Show times for Hollywood Stunt...
G. F. Spangenberg Gun Shop: Fight crime... shoot first!
matcrazy1 Says: This was the first gun shop I ever visited. But this large store offers much more than guns and revolvers plus ammunition and accesories mainly of the Old West era. From floor to ceiling it's full of various items and gifts which may remind the American Old West: oil lamps,...
Madame Mustache: Wild West and homemade fudges
matcrazy1 Says: This store is quite large inside and offers various western gifts, T-shirts, hats, silver and turquoise jewelry, rocks and minerals, miniatures, magnets, Christmas ornaments and many more. There is also Old Tyme Photo Parlour (old photo studio) for those visitors who need to...
Kaspian Says: The American Wild West had lots of customs, most of which still apply in some variation today. Here are a few of the most important among them:- Rule #1: Never, ever mess with the following three things: a man's hat, a man's horse, and a man's gun. Don't even touch them...
The Characters of Old Tombstone
Kaspian Says: Wyatt Earp: Gambler, entrepreneur, and lawman from Dodge City. Middle brother to Virgil and Morgan. Participated in the Gunfight at the OK Corral and emerged unscathed. Later married Josie Marcus.Virgil Earp: Longtime career lawman and town-marshal of Tombstone. Older...
matcrazy1 Says: I was lucky to find this old landmark of rural America on a small farm, close to Tombstone, on the left side of Arizona State Highway 80 driving from Tombstone towards Bisbee. The multi-bladed wind turbine atop a lattice tower made of wood or steel was, for many years, a...
Rock formations of Madrean sky islands
matcrazy1 Says: Sky islands are mountains in ranges isolated by valleys in which other ecosystems are located. As a result, the mountain ecosystems are isolated from each other, and species can develop in parallel, as on island groups such as the Galapagos Islands.I could easily see...
Tombstone: A moment in history
sallystitch Says: If you are going to Tombstone in search of true history, may I suggest visiting the Bird Cage Theater.The building is original, the artifacts well preserved and the true feeling of the way of life (back then) humbles you. As a history buff I was taken in by the the town's...
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Tombstone was founded in 1879 in what was then the Arizona Territory of the USA. It soon became a boomtown of silver mines, high-paying jobs, also of lawlessness, violence and vigilante justice, a...
Tombstone began in 1877 when Mr. Ed Schieffelin, who was willing to brave Apache territory, searched and found a rich strike of silver in the San Pedro Valley. He named his claim "Tombstone" after...
Tombstone, Arizona: When the West was Wild
If Tombstone did not have such an incredibly violent and interesting past, it would probably have no present. It would be just like so many other ghost mining towns in the American Southwest,...
Tombstone - Part History, Part Kitsch
In 1877, a miner named Ed Schieffelin came to the area that is now Southeast Arizona in search of silver. He told the soldiers at nearby Camp Huachuca he was going to search for silver, and stake his...
Travel Dates: September 6 2008. Tombstone? The OK Corral? Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday? The greatest gunfight in the history of the Wild West--30 shots in 30 seconds? Are you freakin' kidding me?!! ...
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