After we left Sandie's place near Nogales, AZ we drove to St. David, AZ. We stayed in a Western Horizons RV park under our Coast to Coast membership from Saturday, Jan. 29 - Thurs., Feb. 3. It was a nice park. We did not get to use much of its wonderful outdoor amenities because of the arctic cold weather that struck the south. We are experiencing record breaking cold down here in the still sunny south. The coldest it has gotten thus far is 14 degrees at night. Usually it will warm up to the 70's around here, we are told. But while here in St David it has not warmed up above 40 degrees. We went to church here in a newly dedicated building and then on Feb. 1, we went to tour the famous western town of Tombstone.
It was a very sunny, but windy and cold day. We bundled up and first toured the famous Boothill Cemetery. Several famous people of western lore are buried here, including the ones that died during the gunfight at OK Corral.
Here are the three "bad guys" that were killed by Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holiday in the gunfight at OK Corral. They are Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton.
It was fascinating to walk in the area that has been made famous by so many western movies.
Then as we walked into the streets of Tombstone, it was like walking into a time warp. Surrounding the old original town were newer places, but the 10 or so square blocks that made up the original townsite was as it was. Most of the buildings were originals, complete with bullet holes. There were many era dressed people walking around. When Wayne approached some to take their picture, he was challenged.
"You wanna take my picture or you wanna fight?" Wayne explained he just wanted to take his picture. We were then invited to watch a reenactment of some of the events that took place in Tombstone.
For a fee, we joined others that were there to watch the action at a movie set nearby. It was so cold, there were very few there!
There were gunfights......
....fist fights and stories told.
Then as we walked through town, looking in all the era like and tourist stores, we came across an original saloon from the Wyatt Earp days called "Big Nose Kate's". Kate was the girl friend of Doc Holiday. Wayne had read about the place before going to Tombstone and it was supposed to be a really good eatery, so we went inside.
It was an amazing museum piece. We listened to a couple old guys sing western songs, shared a Reuben sandwich and fries and relaxed out of the cold. Very interesting place to visit.
We walked around town more, exploring and reading the history. It was fascinating to walk the streets we had learned so much about in history and movies. We walked past the place where the famous gunfight took place and we were tempted to go see the reenactment, but by then it was too cold, so we took a picture of the place and went back home to our trailer.
When we got back home and turned on the TV, we noticed on the cable channels we had that the movie "Tombstone" was going to be on. So, we fixed dinner and watched the Hollywood version of what we had just visited. Fun.
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