Tombstone Arizona: The Truth is Stranger than Fiction. (Jerry Skinner Documentary)

Tombstone Arizona Truth is

stranger

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fiction

This is the layout of Tombstone, Arizona. At the bottom of the page is 6th Street. . . . . .and to the left is the Birdcage Saloon (and the brothel). Now, going up Allen Street to 5th Street, on the right is the Oriental Saloon. At 5th and Freemont is the Schiefflin Theater. Now, across Allen Street from the Oriental Saloon was the Bloody Bucket Saloon. Across 5th Street from the Oriental Saloon is the Crystal Palace Saloon. In Wyatt Earp's time it was called the Golden Eagle Brewery Saloon. Further down Allen Street is the Campbell and Hatch Saloon.

This is where Morgan Earp was shot through the back door. In Freemont, between 4th and 5th streets, is the Tombstone Epithath, and next door was the Earp trial after the OK Correl shooting. Between 4th and 3rd on Allen is the entrance to the O.K. Correl in Freemont is the back entrance to Correl, further down Freemont is Flys Boarding House and Photography. The shooting took place where the X's are. Next up is former Mayor Harwood's house. The shooting took place partly on Freemont Street and in the alley between Fly Photography, our boarding house, and Hayward Home.

On November 27, 1879, Virgil Earp was appointed Deputy U.S. Marshal by U.S. Marshal Crawley. Drake Virgil was assigned the eastern part of the Pima County territory in Arizona. His orders were to move to Tombstone's future headquarters in Pima County and help local law enforcement maintain peace and control lawlessness in eastern Arizona. As Federal Marshal he had more authority and more breadth. rank But county sheriffs and city sheriffs actually made more money. Now, being a close-knit family, Virgil notified his siblings of his appointment and also stated that there were good business opportunities. Virgil will be reunited with two of his brothers Wyatt and James They will arrive on December 1, 1879 Along with their wives His two younger brothers Morgan and Warren will arrive a few months later Now Virgil met Ellen Rysdam when he was seventeen and she was sixteen.

They ran away. His family was completely against the marriage and when Virgil went to fight in the Civil War, his family told Ellen that Virgil had died in battle. And when she came out, they told her that she had died in Oregon with her family. Years later, Virgil will learn that he and Ellen were lied to. Years later he will meet his adult daughter, Nellie Jane, along with her mother. Now, Virgil had been wounded during the war and will lose the use of one of his arms. His second wife was Rosella Dragoo. Now it is unknown what happened to her.

Virgil rarely spoke of her and in 1879 Virgil married Allie Sullivan, a reformed prostitute. They will remain together for 40 years for the rest of their lives. And Allie is going with him to Tombstone. Wyatt Earp married Urilla Sutherland, his childhood sweetheart in 1870. Wyatt's father, Urilla, would die that same year of typhoid fever along with her son. In 1873, in Dodge City, Kansas, where Wyatt was serving as a lawman, he meets Mattie Blaylock, a reformed prostitute. She will accompany Wyatt to Tombstone as his common-law wife. Morgan Earp had left his wife, Louisa, with his parents in California while he met his siblings in Tombstone.

Louisa will come to Morgan in Tombstone about five months later. James had been deputy marshal in Dodge City and after hearing Virgil James and his wife, Nellie Ketchum, call her Bessie, a reformed lady left Dodge for Tombstone Warren, the younger one will leave his parents' home in California and follow his parents. older brothers at Tombstone. He's moving in with Virgil and Allie. The Earp brothers intended to start a stage line, but quickly discovered that there were already two stage lines there, including Wells Fargo, for whom Wyatt goes to work as a stage guard. On January 6, 1880, Fred White will be elected Tombstone's first town marshal.

He was not a politician and was respected by both the cowboy faction and the townspeople. Five months after the election of Marshal White