Today we visited Tombstone - lots of excitement for any old Western Fans (Old Westerns, not fans)! Tombstone is a real town in southwest Arizona, Establised 1879 and still going. It's most famous for the gunfight at the OK Corral on Oct 26 1881, between outlaws (otherwise known as cowboys in those days) Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury, and town Marshal Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt, aided by Doc Holliday Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank died and are buried in Boot Hill, no preserved as a national monument.
Boot hill has lots of graves fro mteh early 1880s as well as a few from later times.
The town has a population of around 1500 and the old part of town has been preserved as a tourist attraction. On Sunday afternoon the locals dress up as cowboys and parade around the town with their boots and jeans and broad brimmed hats and six guns on their hips. We ate lunch at the Crystal Palace Saloon which hasn't changed much except it was a lot quieter and much more respectable than it would have been in Wyatt Earp's time.

I think the Jewish memorial was a later addition

The grave of the three outlaws killed by the Earp brothers

Some grave stones express a sense of humour as well as sadness

Crystal Palace Saloon

Tombstone is a dangerous place. I was picked up by vigilantes who mistook me for a horse thief and decided to hang me. They even wrote my death certificate! But we bribed them to let me go. It was all in a good cause. They're a charitable group raising money for scholarships for kids.