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Forget dusty, deserted main streets and tumbleweeds rolling through vacant saloons. Arizona boasts a unique kind of ghost town: one that pulsates with life.

Andy Mossack saddles up in South Arizona for a modern-day cowboy adventure

From our Western Women series: Samantha Fallon provided rooms for Wyatt Earps prisoners because Tombstone didnt have a jail. She also boasted of hosting Ulysses S. Grant II.

Old West history knows no boundaries. The passion for gunplay is global in scope. Take Italy. In the 1960s, “Pasta Land” developed its own film industry. They churned out countless

But for Wyatt Earp’s arrival in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in December, 1879, the ultimate fate of the “The Town Too Tough to Die” made famous in so many books and motion pictures, may have been different: while Tombstone exists because of prospector Ed Schieffelin, the town persists because of Wyatt Earp and his singular exploits on the Arizona frontier of the early 1880′s.

Wyatt Earp protected George Hearst from cowboys, and the mining magnate rewarded him with a walking stick—or did they?

Tombstone became one of the most notorious towns of the Old West, in large part due to a 30-second gunfight made famous by a book, TV series and several movies

After months of preparation and research, we were ready to leave New England to fulfill a dream. The car was packed with emergency supplies, clothes for all seasons, dozens of

Tombstone became one of the most notorious towns of the Old West, in large part due to a 30-second gunfight made famous by a book, TV series and several movies

Tombstone became one of the most notorious towns of the Old West, in large part due to a 30-second gunfight made famous by a book, TV series and several movies