The Town Too Tough To Die

Tombstone, Arizona. The stuff legends are made of.

The town too tough to die... because the residents wouldn't let it. So now it welcomes hundreds of thousands of tourists year after year, charging fees for them to see the most historical spots in the town: Boot Hill Cemetery, the Bird Cage Theater, and the O.K. Corral. The historic buildings are now filled with shops and restaurants.

Don't get me wrong. I like going to Tombstone. It's still full of ambience, even 150 years after history was made there. Take a look:


The most famous "residents" of Boot Hill:


And some of the more "colorful"...

People, you can't make this stuff up! LOL



"That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment." ~ Dorothy Parker