O.K. Corral Tombstone

This morning we started off by going to the OK Coral where we paid $6 each to watch a 30 minute 'Historama' narrated by Vincent Price. The Historama was part movie, part rotating diorama which was super cool (and although it’s probably in terrible bad taste we all had a giggle when the little Morgan Earp figure was shot and collapsed from the …

... ; The city is most famous for Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp and the shootout at the OK Corral.  As I walked around the city I viewed the OK Corral, Tombstone Epitaph newspaper printer, Tombstone courthouse and the Bid Cage. ...

... to 83 degrees F as we drove through the storm, then rose back up again as soon as the storm passed. Very weird! Arrived in Tombstone (about an hours drive from Tuscon) about 5.30pm. Very old town where silver was once mined, and where the 'Shootout at ...

... , "The Town too Tough to Die" Ever heard of Wyatt Earp? If the answer is yes, you've probably heard of Tombstone. American heritage is shocking, everything dates back to the 1800's. Civilisation in the states is not documented at all like Europe. We ...

Went to Tombstone today. It was like being on the set of every Western film you've ever watched.   Saw a mock gunfight at the OK Corral, got a free copy of the local paper (The Epitaph), bought Stetsons and drank beer (and an awful margarita, ...

... and offended someone else!! After the show, we wandered around a bit more - stopped by the local newspaper/museum, the Tombstone Epitaph, and looked at the historical issues of the paper and the old printing equipment. After a little more moseying, we ...

... D's highlight was finding cruise control on the car! It is a reflection of how close we are to Mexico when on our back from Tombstone we were stopped, along with every other car, by Border Control Police who wanted to see in the back of the car - a ...

... population grew from 100 to around 14,000 in less than 7 years. 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, ...

... ; It's about 6 hours of driving and we got out early so it's an easy one.  So we decided to complicate it when I spotted Tombstone on the map.  It seemed like a cool idea, so we decided to veer about 45 mins of the main road and check it ...

... and saw the Historama show too (a dioramas and movie clips production narrated by Vincent Price, who happened to be a big fan of Tombstone's history and friend to the producer Mr. Love). Between that and the fight, I roamed the streets with many other ...

... that the town was well established,  the population had risen to 10,000, the Gunfight at the OK Corral occurred and the town burned down. By 1886 Tombstone' heyday was over as the silver mines had all flooded and could not be worked- but not before ...