Category: Trips

Saguaro National Park East

Tucson AZ

The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein
-Psalm 24:1

Having never seen a single saguaro cactus in person prior to this trip, this park was amazing to me! Saguaro National Park is both on the east and the west side of Tucson. This park is on the east.

Tombstone Epitaph

Tombstone AZ

In the 1950s the TV show Tombstone was narrated by the editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, so it was cool to visit the place.
An original printing press at the Epitaph.
Printing equipment.
Press plate.
Flipped over, the plate can be read.

Gunfight at the OK Corral

Tombstone AZ

This is really the primary visitor site in Tombstone. They do a reenactment of the famous 1881 gunfight.
They do a little kitschy drama around the history of the gunfight.
The good guys.
The bad guys.
Model of the gunfight.
Doc Holliday’s room.
Camilla S. Fly’s photography studio.
O.K. Corral office. Here is depicted “Honest” John Montgomery, one of the co-owners of the Corral.
Blacksmith.
Buckboard wagon.
Two-spring Phaeton and Piano box buggy.
Fire equipment.
Collection of saddles, including the saddle used by Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp in the 1993 Tombstone movie.

Tombstone, Arizona

Great timing on our visit to Tombstone. We arrived in the middle of HELL-Dorado, Tombstone’s annual celebration. People were dressed up like it was 1881. And there were gunfights in the street all day! The town was packed! If we would have visited any other week, there would have been very few people here.

Big Nose Kate’s Saloon was the place to be for lunch!
Live music.
Stagecoach going through town.
Watching a gunfight.
Historic Birdcage Theater.
Wyatt Earp’s house.
Wyatt Earp statue.
Allen English’s adobe house, built 1882.
Tombstone Courthouse.
Edward L. Schieffelin, whose discoveries of silver in 1877 and 1878 nearby, led to the founding of Tombstone.