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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July 1, 1880 – John Clum, publisher of the new Tombstone Epitaph and soon-to-be mayor, became postmaster and ran the U.S. Post Office in Tombstone. July 11, 1887- Virgil Earp was elected City Marshal of Colton, California. July 11, 1889- After a drunken quarrel with companion Mollie Williams, “Buckskin” Frank Leslie retrieved a pistol and
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May 1, 1880 – The Tombstone Epitaph began publishing daily and weekly editions. John Clum, founder, wrote a two-column editorial which appeared on the front page. It said, in part: “Tombstone is a city set upon a hill, promising to vie with ancient Rome upon her seven hills, in a fame different in character but
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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 and Company’s stagecoach that carried $26,000 in Wells Fargo
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The Associated Press reported April 21, 2010 that, “The 36-page handwritten account of witness testimony given after the shootout that left three men dead in Tombstone had been missing for years…” has been found by court clerks. The document is to be given to the Arizona State Archives. Read the whole story here: https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iz_KXXjvP5jD2IOiAp_2ccJ_slAQD9F7D04G0
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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. April 9, 1885 – The Tombstone Amateur
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On October 26 through 28, 2006, the Old West town of Tombstone, Arizona celebrates the 125th Anniversary of the historic Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Attendees will have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to walk where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and McLaurys in the legendary October 26, 1881 gunfight that
