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To: palo verde
Well, first it was a program about ghost of Gettysburgh, then the next program was about sex and prostitution in the Civil War, and now its ghosts of Tombstone, Arizona...Palo, are you near Tombstone?...

I have to see what ghosts are in Tombstone, Arizona...seems there are lots and lots of sightings in Tombstone...seems because there so many wild characters out there in the 1870s and 1880s during the wild west days....seems the lure of silver pulled about 10,000 people there in its heyday...

Tombstone had more brothels and saloons than any other place in the southwest, and the gunplay was considered a normal part of life...the undertaker was always busy...

All the cowboys and miners from all the neighboring area, such as Abilene, knew each other, as Tombstone was a meeting area, were one could mine for silver, jump a gal, and get drunk...

Sounds like it was quite the town...
427 posted on 07/27/2002 8:08:09 PM PDT by andysandmikesmom
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To: andysandmikesmom
I read book bout Tombstone
sposedly it was autobiography of Wyatt Earp's wife
she arrived there as part of theatrical company
seems Tombstone had their high society cultural people and cultural activities too
wonder if they had opera house
yes it seems like it was thriving center back then

(she met and married Wyatt in Tombstone)
429 posted on 07/27/2002 8:14:37 PM PDT by palo verde
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