Tombstone, Arizona had only officially been a town for a few years when it played host to the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral. While that remains the most famous thing to ever happen in the settlement, it’s far from the only interesting event in Tombstone. In fact, the town has gone through all kinds of ups and downs since its most notorious event, but these days, it’s mostly a tourist attraction. From the town’s long and complicated history with working women to its lowest point at the beginning of the 20th century, let’s take a look at the disturbing history of Tombstone, Arizona.
#Arizona #WildWest #History
The birth of Tombstone | 0:00
Wyatt Earp comes to town | 1:40
Doc Holliday comes to town | 3:09
What happened at the OK Corral? | 4:01
The ladies of the evening | 5:16
Tombstone's other wicked women | 6:12
Tombstone, back to life | 7:00
Tombstone's Hollywood persona | 7:46
Tombstone today | 8:46
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Have you visited Tombstone?
Actually, yes.
I went to high school in Tombstone
@White Wizard Yes it was. The Bird Cage was just across the street from my school.
Yep, I may be a bit jaded but your typical historically based tourist trap...
Went there in the early 70s and was surprised there wasn't much there.
wow they named a city after pizza tower
these eearp brothers mustve been huge pizza tower fans
I resent you calling the Tombstone stores tacky. They're hardly that. The proprietors work hard to keep the stores nice. Beautiful stock, too. We have several excellent restaurants and bars. None of them are tacky either. Bite your tongue. That was just a mean remark. The residents of this town have created jobs and income for this small town. There are housing developments, also. I think it's a matter of accomplishment. They came upon away to keep Tombstone from dying.
Tombstone is a must see town, who ever says otherwise is a dork!!!!👍🏻
I thought their “tacky stores” were the best part. To each his own.
Well, he/she/it can just stay out of Tombstone and we'll never miss them.
OVER 100 saloons in Tombstone? Living there must have been insane lol. The scariest portrayal of the Earps and Doc Holliday to me will always be in Star Trek's episode "Spectre of the Gun." RIP the great Ron Soble as Wyatt Earp.
My hometown. I have so many great stories growing up in that town.
That is so cool!!!
Share them. 😃
When the video pop up and I saw The Disturbing history of Tombstone I thought you meet Tombstone from the Marvels Comics but still interesting video I might visit Tombstone Arizona one day 🤔
This channel is so interesting
Took my Granddaughters there 18 mths ago. They loved it. Will definitely do it again next time we go to the States.
I just took a trip to Arizona and we visited Tombstone. I highly recommend it. What a place.
Growing up in Arizona I remember dad stopping the car at Tombstone and we all got out to walk around. Before it was declared a historic landmark a lot of the buildings were closed and needed repairs. Boot hill was all overgrown and you couldn't read the names on some of them. I was a kid and liked walking around the town and it wasn't crowded at all. Used to go there every so often but not much these last 40 years.
Living in Arizona having been to Tombstone numerous times this video would have been more believable if you stopped including clips from movies that had nothing to do with Tombstone or the surrounding area.
I am on my fourth sitting of The Life and Time of Wyatt Earp the old TV series. It has been reported by several articles/stories that the TV version of Wyatt Earp is the most accurate. While I enjoy Kevin Costner and others who have portrayed Wyatt, Hugh O’Brien is my favorite. I am a huge fan of the old Wild Wild West it is fascinating to me.
I took my 7 year old brother there since he was in love with cowboys. We went to one of the shows and my poor brother thought the shootout was real lmaoo. It’s pretty touristy but still super fun. Ugh and their bison burgers... 10/10 recommend🤤
Having missed the shoot out, it was at 11:am. My wife and I wandered boot hill where all the original tombstones had been stolen with angle iron crosses in their place . Found the Bird cage theatre, where you had to pay to go into the theatre itself. A must see. Out on the street, People in period dress would pop out of doors and walk around, very cool. Had lunch in a kinda period saloon . Talked to a pretty young local waitress who badly wanted to get out of town. I truly is the town that wouldn't die. An interesting place to spend the day, get there early.
I've been there twice, I have to wonder if the producer of this video was actually ever there, or gained his lack of knowledge from google. what wasn't mentioned was the original town burned down, and was rebuilt several times, or that John Wayne met Wyatt Earp, while working as a stage hand, and that's who he based his persona on for his western movies.. so many details left out...like the fact that the same newspaper that printed the story about the shootout at the ok corral is still printing newspapers (as of my last visit) and is the oldest continually running newspaper in America... Tombstone will probably be my retirement destination, love it there
Xtreme live not 30 miles from Tombstone Its a theme town living on fixation John Wayne never met Wyatt Earp,,,,,,, but my grandfather did in Nome Alaska they ran the Dexter hotel saloon together during the Klondike gold rush...... Edwin j
My family is from Tomb stone, from way back. I was told My Great Great Grandfather built the board in town.
Always wanted to go to Tombstone someday.
I find the history of Deadwood fascinating as well...I would love to visit both towns.
@Frank JV I'm not from Arizona but I hope to go there someday it's on my bucket list. My sister lives a couple of hours from Glenwood Springs where Doc Holliday is buried hope to go there soon also.
I've been there 20 years ago and all that was left of Tombstone was a couple of planks of wood. I dare say there is now nothing left. It still will give you a creepy vibe. The land itself is haunted with the wild west lost souls.
Don't waste your time. It's only a tourist trap.
@@mpking3785 yeah I have always wondered if it was. It's over a thousand miles drive one way for me. Was planning on stopping by on my way to Los Angeles
6:18 is that typo in the instagram link not a typo? "chamer of commerce" instead of "chamber".
Used to live there as a kid back in the 90s. I was even on the tv show Hard Copy, talked about the shoot out that happens every Sunday..
I loved visiting Tombstone!
This was an interesting video, but you got a lot of facts dead wrong. I'll mention that Virgil Earp was not the marshal of Tombstone prior to Wyatt's arrival. Virgil, Wyatt and James Earp arrived together in December, 1879. But the video was well presented.
After the war as a lad of 14 years I wrote to the Marshall of tombstone mr barney hockstead saying I wanted to become a marshall he replied in a letter telling me if I ever got there he would give me chuck and wagon .whatever that was and make me an honoury deputy Marshall.well it took me 50 years.but I got there.unfortunetly.he had passed away his wife was in a nursing home in Tucson. But the court rallied round and made my day and granted his wish.thanks barney.
Tombstone received a recent face lift and some new businesses and its worth a look. Take the less traveled road near Tombstone, going to the old Gleeson mining district pretty cool. We locals are Clanton fans and feel the Earps were the protagonists.
I like how they specifically cite "according to history" as if thats a real citation. What exactly was disturbing about any of this? Whats disturbing is that no one is getting fired at Grunge for these click-baity titles. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Thanks fr for helping me not fall for that too😂😂
Ive been to Tombstone twice on business. First, you really have to go there because its remote and not on the way to anywhere. I was there in the middle of the week and I had the gunfight location all to myself. I have an affinity to historical places. If you love history, its worth the trip.
I live near here. I love going over on weekends, great people and great atmosphere.
Any camping near, preferrably free? I'll plan on riding my motorcycle there in April..
I was there this last weekend; Touristy but super fun. The show was good and their are plenty of old saloons to get a drink or food.
Took a trip to this town. Somehow ended up at the Okee Dokee corral instead. 😳😳😳
Who else got like 30 seconds into this and then had to go look up the "I'm your huckleberry" scene from Tombstone?
You should have mentioned the Earp Vendetta Ride after Morgan was killed.
Me and my mom when to tombstone three months ago and we like it a lot. 😀👍
I can’t believe that the “Tombstone Terror” did not make the cut. Two cowboys were riding their horses and a saw a dragon flying over head. So being cowboys they tried to shoot the thing down. The dragon turn on them and grabbed their horses and dropped them, leaving the cowboys on foot. Not leaving well enough alone the two cowboys tracked the dragon leading to one cowboy dead and One dragon down. Remaining cowboy went to Tombstone with a chunk of Dragon carcass to prove his tale. When they tried to recover the rest of the dead dragon it was gone, just a blood splotchy patch left. The cowboy described the dragon as a alligator with wings
Went to Tombstone with my family. my son loved it. Money well spent to presereve history. i want my sons children to go and see it.
Wow!
China Mary actually had a really interesting story too. She wasn’t just a lady of the evening. also no moved to Prescott and became a pretty successful business woman
Nothing but a tourist trap now, but Wyatt earps house is pretty cool
Joseph Meador thats soo cool, did you go see it??
@@UnwrittenSpade yes! And the newspaper building there gives you a copy of the paper from the day after the shootout, with the original plates! It was really cool, but just was sad about how hoaky the tourist stuff is
I wonder if 100 years from now tourists will visit reenactments of urban gang fights like these?
Joseph Meador that’s one thing i hate is how places get so hoaky, thats why i cant stand Pigeon Forge in Tennessee ugh!!! We have an ocean city here in MD thats like that too
@@dshe8637 🤣🤣🤣
You're wrong about the location of the shootout being relocated for tourists. Route 80 IS Fremont Street and though it has been widened and ate up a little of the lot where the fight happened, most of the location is still there and that is what tourists see. The confusion may be that the entrance is now on Allen Street and you have to wend your way through a gift shop (where you pay a small fee) and then what was once an alley; you'll see remnants of the original adobe walls of what was once the OK Corral adjacent to the site, and then finally you are bordering Fremont Street where the gunfight happened.
I was just there last week. Had the place to myself. Big Nose Kate's Saloon was open.
Inserting shots from the Ballad of Buster Scruggs and The Magnificent Seven and other lesser films? Really what the..?
my parents were married in town, my family runs deep in the dusty roads of tombstone.
Having watched just about every movie on Earp, Holliday and Tombstone, my favorite simply because it tells a longer story and perhaps is a bit more realistic is Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner. With that said, Tombstone was a much better watch. Both portrayed the actual shootout at the lot near the OK Corral or in front of it. These guys were right on top of each other just a handful of feet apart and that is the truth in that one respect of the movie. The nads it took to go down there and actually try to arrest them with Doc by their side. Just my thoughts on the movie end. Feel free to add or correct.
Wow, GREAT MOVIE, glad Val K. got an AWARD! John P.
You never see blonde cowboys
Pretty soon Tre, you ain't gonna see any blonde people at all🤸♀️
There's a lot of incorrect information in this video about Wyatt Earp. I've spent many hours researching his life and found census records verifying that he was in the towns listed in the biography by Stuart Lake and that the biography is mostly accurate. My parents were children when Earp was an old man and my grandmother told them about newspaper accounts of Wyatt Earp that verify his accomplishments as one of the greatest lawmen who ever lived. The descendants of the 10% ring in Tucson and descendants of other outlaws who went up against Wyatt Earp have spent a lot of money trying to discount Earp's reputation, which explains why there seems to be so much confusion about him. As a police officer he needed to go into brothels and saloons because that's the nature of police work. It wasn't that he was addicted to those locations as many writers wrongfully assume. These descendants are responsible for many of the unfavorable stories about Earp and for trying to paint him in a negative light. The truth is, almost everyone alive during his time knew who he was, and that he was in nearly 150 gunfights but only killed one man because he never aimed for the head or heart. He didn't like killing because he was raised to believe in the bible and taught that it is against the 10 commandments, and he didn't break that resolve until after the Gunfight at the OK corral, when his brother was murdered and another brother was crippled for life by outlaws working for the Clanton gang. Wyatt was a consultant on the sets of John Wayne's early movies, and Wayne attributed the acquisition of his tough guy character to the tips and advice he received from Earp. John Wayne followed Earp's example in many of his movies, and that tells you a lot about both men.
If you ever go there...and look around you will relative how odd it was that Ed was mining there all alone in the middle of Apache raiders and interstate criminal travelers. It's a hard lookin' place.
Nothing on Boothill? That's the most interesting and genuine.
my hometown
So uh.... you guys ever played that one pizza game?
Wasteyard Pizza Tower was so good they made Tombstone Arizona into a real thing
@@TheRealPhantomStalks 💀💀
You never even mentioned the Teutonic Titwillow, Lily Von Schtup!
they put movie clips from movies that have nothing to do with Tombstone Hopeless (;
Yes, I'm still trying to figure out why they included so many clips from one of my favorite Westerns, "Silverado," which takes place in the fictional town of---duh, _Silverado_ and none of the characters are named Earp or Halliday (or Clanton, _et al)._ Still, they all seem to do it... Stay safe.
My Welsh friend has been here
Do rick James plz
Red dead redemption 2 Tumbleweed was inspired by this town
BEEN THERE YEARS AGO WITH MY BROTHER JIM AND HIS WIFE, ALICE, BOTH PASSED ON, GREAT TIMES WITH THEM THERE
Wyatt's alleged ride of the immortals cost him his badge and got him and doc banished from territory
They also left out that Wyatt Earp also trained John Wayne
I heard that John Wayne's famous walk was copied from Wyatt Earp.
The documentary calls Doc Holiday "temperamental". He was in fact a violent psychopathic bully who knew he was dying. Which also made him fearless. Of all the people in the old west that I would never want to meet he heads the list.
It did have the hair on but the town was still civilized enough to be stunned by the killings in the Earp Clanton mess
Silverado?!? The Magnificent Seven?!?
Yes - and clips from Gunfight at the OK Corral as well.
I know. Neither of which has anything to do with the story.
Where are the mushroom ghosts and the oversized grates
No mention of Nelly Cashman really?
I love history
There were newspapers that documented the news. Also first hand accounts from people who had ancestors from Tombstone. Your depiction of the Earps coming from iterant farmers from Iowa, reveals your snobbery. As far as the prostitute remark goes. Many men in big cities back then were married to former prostitutes. Good jobs were limited to many women in the 1800's. The majority of men in Tombstone visited brothels. What makes Earp so extraordinary is, he wasn't a member of the brotherhood of snobs, who ran organized crime. He wasn't perfect by any stretch but who is. He was good-looking, brave and went after the gang who murdered his brother. As Doc would say, you must be a educated man. 😉
Befriending a prostitute = criminal....
A million ways to die made it in the vid!
Just said 10 of thousands of people may have lived in Tombstone AZ, question how do you feed thousands of people back then
and find enough water
That's just my game...
I'd like to see you to a video on Lotta Crabtree, the first American Superstar. Who was also a closet lesbian. She had quite an interesting life.
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My great great great Uncle He Was there in probably in 1940
I've been to the ok corral.they have the corral and they no were it is.y would they lie
I love the history of the southwest of the USA! A lot of what I see is fiction but I think they have a good grasp on what really happened.
Grew up in Arizona I still don’t know exactly where tombstone is
About 25 miles East of Sierra Vista
Too bad the actors and actresses are usually so much better looking than the historical characters (to the point where they have no resemblance at all).
Why does the Narrator speak in such a synnical, doubting, condescending tone. Its distracting as it makes it all sound so blahsay, not interesting. Calling the site "fake" and other things "cheesey". Does he want people to listen and learn or does he just want to be a negative Nelley about it. Thumbs down!
Probably the most ill informed n badly researched history I every heard
Thanks very interesting! Google 22:17
Holliday killed 2 men both self defense google it
Don't go to Tombstone its a freaking rip-off and a over the top tourist trap. You'll realize its a joke in your first 10 minutes of parking your car and walking a block.... looked like a B movie set at best!
Tucson and Tombstone are the only two areas of Arizona .I have not been in at all in that state ,But I have everywhere else in that state .Which was a long time ago,And it was a little different then compared to now ,Which it has be come racist .But I thought it was a cool state once ,like the state history which not pretty by any means .
When legend becomes fact, print the legend. ...dob1945usaDOC..
I resent you calling the Tombstone stores tacky. They're hardly that. The proprietors work hard to keep the stores nice. Beautiful stock, too. We have several excellent restaurants and bars. None of them are tacky either. Bite your tongue. That was just a mean remark. The residents of this town have created jobs and income for this small town. There are housing developments, also. I think it's a matter of accomplishment. They came upon away to keep Tombstone from dying.