Day 6
Thursday, 5 January, 2012
Our day started out with a visit to Boot Hill Graveyard where pioneers and outlaws rest. Then we took a drive to Gleeson about 16 miles on dirt road to a ghost town. Not much there, only a restored jail and the remains of a few buildings. On the way back we stopped at at John and Sandy's Rattlesnake Crafts 2 miles down a washboard dirt road in the middle of the desert.. They are rattlesnake hunters who make anything you can imagine out rattle snake skin and vertebra. No part of the snake goes to waste.
We spent the afternoon touring downtown Tombstone and watching the reenactment of the OK Coral shoot out, then to the Big Nose Kate Saloon for a beer and listening to some good live entertainment.
Tombstone is a beautifully preserved 1880's western town. Tombstone derived its name from its founder, Ed Schueffelin, who was told that all he would find here would be his tombstone, however he found a vein of silver and a mining camp followed, then a prosperous mining town.
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