From vigilante committees to lynch mobs, these three stories reveal how Tombstone citizens sometimes took justice into their own hands when the law failed them.
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit southern Arizona and northern Mexico in 1887, and the man sent to investigate had no proper instruments and made do with what he had.
Tombstone is arguably Arizona's most famous town. Starting with the legend of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in 1881, the town has grown to become the Old Western town.
As if hourly gun fights, prostitutes, rampant hallucinogenic drug use, gambling and the occasional Indian uprising weren't enough to make the cities PR guy quit ...
One of my favorite things to do is browse local legal websites, and try to find the weirdest laws still in action today. Arizona has a plethora of these weird and wacky laws, from a ban on fortune telling to a necessary permit to feed pigs garbage.