AZT750 - J-1 - Tombstone & Coronado Memorial

Visit to Tombstone in the morning and getting closer to the start of Arizona Trail Race in the afternoon, we slept behind the Coronado Memorial building ....

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April 22^nd, 2015

Leaving sierra vista

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AZT750 - J-1 - Tombstone & Coronado Memorial

Road from Sierra vista to Tombstone

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died with their boots on ... BOOTHILL GRAVEYARD

Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton, killed in the O.K. Corral shootout, are among those buried in the town‘s Boothill Graveyard. Of the number of pioneer Boot Hill cemeteries in the Old West, so named because most of those buried in them had “died with their boots on“, Boothill in Tombstone is one of the best-known.

Tombstone (AZ)

Tombstone is a historic western city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the last wide-open frontier boomtowns in the American Old West. The town prospered from about 1877 to 1890, during which time the town‘s mines produced US$40 to $85 million in silver bullion, the largest productive silver district in Arizona. Its population grew from 100 to around 14,000 in less than seven years. It is best known as the site of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and draws most of its revenue from tourism.