WILD TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA TERRITORY

On this date back in 1882 the Tucson Daily Star reprinted an article from a New York newspaper about wild Tombstone, Arizona Territory.  It said:

“Few people there die in their beds.  A man with good luck and extraordinary vitality may manage to keep out of the tomb long enough to become a citizen, but such instances are rare.  Not long since Deputy United States Marshal Earp was found with nineteen bullets in his body and he is alive yet.  He seems to be the right sort of man for the place.”

And to think, we’re packing up to go to Tombstone.  I sure hope the same thing that happened to Deputy United States Marshal Virgil Earp doesn’t happen to me…Incidentally, those nineteen bullets were buckshot.