Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp. Brave, courageous, and bold. Long live his fame, and long live his glory, And long may his story be told. - Theme to the televis.
But for Wyatt Earp’s arrival in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in December, 1879, the ultimate fate of the “The Town Too Tough to Die” made famous in so many books and motion pictures, may have been different: while Tombstone exists because of prospector Ed Schieffelin, the town persists because of Wyatt Earp and his singular exploits on the Arizona frontier of the early 1880′s.
A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.May 1On this date in 1859, Father Joseph P. Machebeuf was named the first American Catholic priest in Arizona.On this date in 1880, the Tombstone Epitaph was established by publisher John P. Clum, who said, “every tombstone needs an epitaph.”On this date in 1914, the
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Sunday, May 1 On this date in 1859, Father Joseph P. Machebeuf was named the first American Catholic priest in Arizona. On this date in 1880, The Tombstone Epitaph was established by publisher John P.