March 3, 1848 – Robert Findley “Frank” McLaury was born in Merideth, New York. He and his brother Tom would eventually lose their lives in the most famous gunfight in the history of the Old West – the O.K. Corral shootout. March 15, 1881 – Kinnear & Company’s stagecoach that carried $26,000 in Wells Fargo […]
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February, 1881 – The city of Tombstone was incorporated February 10, 1881 – Johnny Behan becomes sheriff of Cochise County, which includes the town of Tombstone. February 11, 1882 – The defendants (Earps and Holliday) filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus petition, stating that: Judge Smith in Contention City had no right to hold them
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January 3, 1882 – John Carr defeated John Clum for mayor of Tombstone. January 4, 1881 – A committee headed by George Parsons substituted John Clum for another candidate after he withdrew from the mayor’s race less than a week before the election. John was elected mayor of Tombstone with 532 out of 697 votes.
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December 14, 1879 – Johnny Ringo shot Louis Hancock in the throat at a saloon in Safford. December 1881 – U.S. Marshal Crawley Dake commissioned Wyatt Earp as a Deputy U.S. Marshal by telegraph from Prescott. December 14, 1881 – An attempted hijacking of the Benson night stage that contained Mayor John Clum took place,
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(Phoenix, Arizona – November 12, 2014) – Between the cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Oracle State Park is a 4,000-acre dark sky oasis in the desert. Now the park’s impressive night skies will be protected for future generations. The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) has named Oracle State Park an International Dark Sky Park. Designated at the
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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 issue of the Tombstone
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For nearly 60 years the ruins of Tumacácori stood as a welcome waypoint for travelers. Gold-seeking 49ers passed here on their way to California. Military troops (including then Lieutenant John J. Pershing) left soot from their campfires on the walls of the sacristy. Ranchers turned the cemetery, or campo santo, into a corral to keep
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September 1, 1851 – John Philip Clum, future Apache agent, mayor of Tombstone and publisher of the Tombstone Epitaph, was born in the Hudson River Valley near Claverack, New York. September 6, 1884 – “Doc” Holliday was released after posting bail in Leadville, Colorado. He had been held in conjunction with shooting Billy Allen at
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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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Chiricahua National Monument Acting Superintendent Matt Stoffolano announced today that portions of the Bonita Canyon Campground will be closed beginning Monday, July 7. The campground is located near the mouth of Bonita Canyon and several streams flow through the vicinity. In anticipation of heavy monsoon rains, around 10 of the 25 sites in the campground
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