November 14 – Riordan Mansion State Historic Park
Lava Dams on the Colorado and Little Colorado Rivers
Evening Slide Presentation Series. 7 pm. Presented by Wendell Duffield, USGS & NAU. Volcanoes are notorious for building dams across rivers that get in their way. Northern Arizona has been a hotbed of this kind of no-bid construction. Eruptions in [...]

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October 1, 1881 – Geronimo and Naiche, son of the late Cochise, escaped the San Carlos Reservation with about 400 other Apaches. Despite pursuit by a posse of 35 -40 men, they remained free until February 1884 when Geronimo surrendered and returned to the reservation.
October 2, 1879 – The first [...]

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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Waila! Making the People Happy, Time TBA, Free
Enjoy Waila music and dancing after viewing a feature film on the Waila music tradition. This program takes place at the Tohono O’odham Cultural Center and Museum in Topawa, AZ. Film screening, a discussion with filmmakers Dan Golding and ethnomusicologist Dr. Janet Sturman, followed by [...]

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September 1874 – After suffering through an economic downturn in Dallas, Texas, John Henry “Doc” Holliday decided to relocate. He sold his large dental equipment to his former partner, Dr. John A. Seegar and moved 75 miles or so north to Dennison…
September 1880 – Coincidentally, both future sheriff Johnny Behan and “Doc” Holliday, an old [...]

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August 13, 1881 Newman “Old Man” Clanton was camped out alongside six other cowboys in Guadalupe Canyon just inside the U.S. border with Mexico. The cattle they had been herding towards Tombstone were believed to have been rustled from Sonora. An ambush occurred in the middle of the night, and five of the seven cowboys [...]

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WILLIAMS, Ariz. – The Cross Fire, 18 miles southeast of Williams, received measurable rain Monday afternoon, slowing fire activity considerably. It is now approximately 7,718 acres and 25 percent contained. If rain continues, managers expect minimal activity and limited growth. The percent contained reflects those areas on the east and north sides where actions were [...]

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Thursday June 18, 2009
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursdays” free presentation: “Silverbell Coachline, an Early Hohokam Archaeological Site of the Northern Tucson Basin,” with archaeologist Eric Eugene Klucas of Tierra Right of Way Ltd.
Forty architectural features and 175 human burials dating between A.D. 700 and 950 were identified and excavated west of the Santa Cruz [...]

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June 4, 1880 – John Clum was appointed postmaster of Tombstone.
June 22, 1880 – Mike Killeen attempted to ambush “Buckskin” Frank Leslie in the Cosmopolitan Hotel for having an affair with his wife, when George Perine walked in. A gunfight ensued and Mike was killed. Frank and George were arrested for murder, but the initial [...]

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May 30, 1887 – An earthquake struck Tombstone and was followed by several aftershocks. The initial temblor was of sufficient strength to crack walls in adobe structures, knock items to the floor and cause every clock in Tombstone to stop. The nearby town of Bisbee reported boulders tumbling from the surrounding mountains. A geyser erupted [...]

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April 1881 – Bob Paul, former Wells Fargo agent, becomes Pima County Sheriff after a protracted challenge over the November 1880 election results.
April 1881- Tombstone’s city council reorganized the City Marshal’s office as a police department, and established a Chief of Police for the city of 4,000.

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