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Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp. Brave, courageous, and bold. Long live his fame, and long live his glory, And long may his story be told. - Theme to the televis...

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.

A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual — events that happened this week in Arizona history.May 1On this date in 1859, Father Joseph P. Machebeuf was named the first American Catholic priest in Arizona.On this date in 1880, the Tombstone Epitaph was established by publisher John P. Clum, who said, “every tombstone needs an epitaph.”On this date in 1914, the

Sunday, May 1 On this date in 1859, Father Joseph P. Machebeuf was named the first American Catholic priest in Arizona. On this date in 1880, The Tombstone Epitaph was established by publisher John P.

April 25 On this date in 1854, the Gadsden Purchase was ratified and signed by President Franklin Pierce. It became effective June 30. On this date in 1877, schools in Tucson were closed because of a smallpox epidemic. On this date in 1896, a plague swept the hog farms in the Salt River Valley and 8,000 hogs died in the following three months. Storyblocks Pigs in an enclosure. On this date in 1898, Gov. Myron H. McCord received official authorization to enlist volunteers for the Rough Riders. On this date in 1933, bandits held up the Valley Bank at Globe and escaped with $34,000. April 26 On ...