Tombstone AZ and OK Corral

We've had a busy week starting with going to Tombstone on Monday (about 90 minutes southeast of here).  I wasn't too excited about it but Kirk really wanted to go. We hired a girl from the park to walk the dogs while we were gone.  On the way we drove through a campground in St. David but it was an ownership park.  Nancy and I were not impressed but the guys thought it was OK.  When we got to Tombstone we stopped at the Boot Hill Cemetery which was very interesting. The years of 1881 and 1882 were good for the undertaker.  Most of the wooden grave markers were replicas of the originals and they usually said the cause of death on them (shot, hung, murdered, suicide, etc.).  All of the graves were covered with a pile of rocks, just like you see in the movies.

Then we went downtown to see the OK Corral.  For $10 each we got to see the recreation of the famous gunfight between the good guys (Wyatt and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday) and the cowboys.  It was a good show. We also got a free newspaper from that day from "The Epitaph."  Had lunch at the Crystal Palace Saloon which had a replica of the original 60 foot bar that burned in one of the two fires in town.  We walked around town for awhile, it's mostly gift shops of course but still looks pretty original.  The old county courthouse was a museum that had a lot of interesting artifacts from mining, cowboys, Indians, etc.  We took the scenic route home.