Greetings, viewers!
I started this video wanting to take a run around town, but soon realized I was getting too distracted by the old western stores and copious cowboys, so I redirected onto the neighborhood streets to see the little gem of a town for myself, the way the locals see it every day. I met more of the locals on this overnight visit than I had anywhere else on my trip, placing Tombstone at THE MOST friendly town I've visited in Arizona thus far! I truly can't wait to go back and uncover more magic in this tiny town. It was just up my alley! Some might find Tombstone a little cliche because it's so touristy, but I grew up in a very tourist-oriented town so to me, it just feels like a place with an actual identity, unlike most American towns which are nothing but big box stores surrounded by suburbs.
Sitting at 4,406ft, the evening got brisk soon after sundown, and I hear the summers are comparatively mild due to the elevation. It even snows a few inches!
If you ever visit, I highly recommend staying at the Larian motel! I found the room to be comfortable and the service first rate. Supposedly haunted, I didn't notice anything, but the ghosts may have had the night off. ;)
There's also a bright yellow house on one of the side streets that's an AirBnB that I'd like to stay at one day as I talked with the owner randomly as I passed by on my run. He and his wife own the cafe in the back of the antique store on the main drag. It's called Jane's Coffee, Cafe, and Bakery. Plus the antique store is chock full of interesting relics of bygone eras.
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Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Tombstone:
Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It became one of the last boomtowns in the American frontier. The town grew significantly into the mid-1880s as the local mines produced $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 presently draws most of its revenue from tourism.
The town was established on Goose Flats, a mesa above the Goodenough Mine. Within two years of its founding, although far distant from any other metropolitan area, Tombstone had a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice-cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous dance halls and brothels. All of these businesses were situated among and atop many silver mines. The gentlemen and ladies of Tombstone attended operas presented by visiting acting troupes at the Schieffelin Hall opera house, while the miners and cowboys saw shows at the Bird Cage Theatre and brothel.
Under the surface were tensions that grew into deadly conflict. The mining capitalists and the townspeople were largely Republicans from the Northern states. Many of the ranchers (some of whom-like the Clantons-were also rustlers or other criminal varieties) were Confederate sympathizers and Democrats. The booming city was only 30 miles (48 km) from the U.S.-Mexico border and was an open market for cattle stolen from ranches in Sonora, Mexico, by a loosely organized band of outlaws known as The Cowboys. The Earp brothers-Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan-as well as Doc Holliday, arrived in December 1879 and mid-1880. The Earps had ongoing conflicts with Cowboys Ike and Billy Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury, and Billy Claiborne. The Cowboys repeatedly threatened the Earps over many months until the conflict escalated into a shootout on October 26, 1881. The historic gunfight is often portrayed as occurring at the O.K. Corral, though it actually occurred a short distance away in an empty lot on Fremont Street.
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