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Tombstone (Paperback)
Jane Eppinga
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R538
R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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Tombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the
middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the
heart of America's Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878,
and with that strike, Tombstone was created. It soon grew to be a
town of over 10,000 of the most infamous outlaws, cowboys, lawmen,
prostitutes, and varmints the Wild West has ever seen. The gunfight
at the O.K. Corral made Wyatt Earp and John Henry "Doc" Holliday
legendary and secured Tombstone's reputation as "The Town Too Tough
to Die." In this volume, more than 200 striking images and
informative captions tell the stories of the heroes and villains of
Tombstone, the saloons and brothels they visited, the movies they
inspired, and Boot Hill, the well-known cemetery where many were
buried.
The communities that once surrounded the infamous Wild West town of
Tombstone, including Dos Cabezas, Fairbank, Gleeson, Pearce,
Courtland, Charleston, and Milltown, are now mostly ghosts of their
former selves. These rich mining towns had promising futures when
they were first established, but many experienced only fleeting
boom times, like Courtland, a promising copper camp that survived
only 12 years. During its short existence, the town of Charleston,
founded in 1879 as a milling site for ore from Tombstone's silver
mines, was every bit as wild and rowdy as its neighbor. There was
corruption in the region too. Dos Cabezas's Mascot Mine became part
one of the largest stock scandals of the time when it was exposed
around 1900. Today this fascinating, rough-and-tumble history lives
on primarily in faded memories, crumbling remnants on the outskirts
of Tombstone, and in vintage photographs gathered together in this
volume.
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Tombstone (Hardcover)
Jane Eppinga
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R719
R638
Discovery Miles 6 380
Save R81 (11%)
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