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The American Cowboy Chronicle ^ | June 1, 2017 | Tom Correa

[Texas Fossil]

I traveled Arizona for many years. Went to Tombstone often. There are a lot of legends about it, many of those legends are embellished upon.

Tom tries hard to see past that.

I like his work.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

In the little cemetery in my hometown a grave stone reads:

“Been here and gone.
Had a good time.”

[\/\/ayne]

26 Men was a TV Series in the 50's about the Arizona Rangers based on historical fact. I don't remember which episode but at the end of one of them a real Arizona Ranger comes on to say the events just seen really happened that way and he knows because he was there.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Here lies red-head Fred,
not so much for how he lived,
but very much for what he said,
is the reason this man is dead.

[Texas Fossil]

Sounds as if he wrote his own epitaph.

Interesting.

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks.

I think if they Eastern papers had not written exaggerated articles about the “West” a lot of Western History would have been forgotten totally.

So now we have the opposite problem? Filtering for truth.

With today's Fake News? Will we have the same problem 40 years form now trying to describe the history of this time?

[Texas Fossil]

As many times as I went to Tombstone over the years, I never went to boot hill.

Just never thought much about it.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Was there an episode of an Arizona ranger riding into the town of Agua Fria?

[Bob]

...and Hank Dunstan lay mortally wounded. All in all both men ended up dead.

Gee, mortally wounded and he ended up dead... Who would have expected that?

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmark

[Texas Fossil]

smile.

[NTHockey]

In doing a genealogical study of my family, I found the US census from 1900-1930 absolutely unreliable. The 1900 census had misspellings, wrong names and even different names (both wrong) on subsequent pages. The 1930 census even had a question mark in the middle of my families name!

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, sir.

And today with history recorded in electronic format? What do you think the accuracy will be in the future.

In the past the literate could read and write.

It was all in cursive or in printed letters. (before typewriters)

[Oystir]

A friend tells me of reading the S. Carolina census of that period. The names were quite colorful.

Of course we now have Laquizhsa, which is quite colorful in its own right but the names of yore couldn’t make it past censors

[Big Red Badger]

I visited Boothill in Tombstone along
with the Birdcage Theater...
Just WOW!

Next trip..
A nights stay at the
Copper Queen Hotel!

[rdl6989]

My family was there back in the 90’s. Many of those tombstones are “poetic”.

Here lies George Johnson, Hanged by mistake, 1882.
He was right, we was wrong, but we strung him up and now he’s gone.”

http://www.boothillgraves.com

[dfwgator]

[Texas Fossil]

I have eaten at the Copper Queen. But never stayed there. Always spent the night on my trips there in Sierra Vista.

[PUGACHEV]

We were passing through the area and decided to stop at Tombstone one weekday afternoon. I was expecting an over-hyped tourist trap, but found an historical gem instead. I was deeply impressed. The grave yard was touching and eerie, especially the five men hanged on the same day buried side by side.

The Birdcage Theater was very interesting. After a fire and flooding, Tombstone shut down virtually overnight. In 1889 the Birdcage was sealed up and not entered again until 1932. Almost nothing has changed since then, making it an unusually authentic piece of the old west.

[granite]