The legendary story of Tombstone and Wyatt Earp has an untold
missing link...the nearby town of Charleston. A town known for its
"diversified viciousness," where the sounds of saloons filled with
gambling tables and dance hall girls were sometimes mixed with
celebratory gunfire in the streets. Learn of Wyatt Earp's siege of
Charleston, as he searched for his brother, Virgil's, assailants.
But the story of Charleston has far more depth and intrigue than
just intermittent visits from Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Ike
Clanton, and Curly Bill Brocius. It was home to the hard working
men of Millville just across the San Pedro River, honest ranchers
and cattle rustlers, storekeepers, gamblers, and outlaws. It was
home base for smuggling American goods into Mexico. As one lawman
wrote... "Charleston was a hangout for the riff-raff from Fort
Huachuca, Bisbee, Tombstone, and other places where there were
officers to see that they behaved themselves. In Charleston they
were not molested harassed]...Jim Burnett, the justice of the
peace, and Jerry Barton, the constable... paid little attention to
keeping law and order." The industrial side of Charleston was
Millville, where rich Tombstone Silver Ore was turned into bars of
Bullion, briefly fueling Tombstone's economic rise to one of the
great mining camps of the west. Fully sourced and footnoted with a
great deal of previously unpublished primary sources, this is the
first book published devoted to bringing this remarkable town to
life. Much has been written of Tombstone's colorful days, but of
the two locations, Charleston best fits the description of a truly
wild west town, when the Arizona Territory was still far from being
tamed and civilized. The complexities and contradictions of life in
Charleston are summed up differently by its residents. But the town
made an indelible impression upon many. "The only time in my life
when I remember feeling cold sweat break out on my face from terror
was when I was in Charleston... At that time, all we] could hear
was about this or that killing or shooting scrape and I lived in
constant fear. In fact, I was afraid to cross the street after
dark." Historian John Rose now offers "Charleston and Millville,
A.T. Hell on the San Pedro."
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