Sunday, January 10, 2010

Shoot-outs in Tombstone!

Looking out over Boothill:




A couple of the restored graves at Boothill:



The Earps and Doc Holliday:


The Clantons get the worst of it:


Today we witnessed a gunfight! And then another one! All in fun, of course, as the citizens of Tombstone re-enacted their rather colorful past. There was a skit about a shotgun wedding; one about some cowboys who just returned from the Territorial Prison at Yuma; and then as the finale an enactment of the stand-off with the Earps and Doc Holliday at the OK Corral.

After we browsed through several of the stores -- and drooled over an old squash blossom necklace -- we went out to Boothill, the cemetery made famous in Western lore. The old cemetery has been retored by the citizens of Tombstone in the last several years. There is no admission charge for entrance to the cemetery, but the it costs two dollars for the flyer that identifies the graves...

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