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Since 1880, when The Tombstone Epitaph® first reported on Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral®, The Epitaph has been a leading voice documenting the rich history of the American West. Today, The Tombstone Epitaph National Edition brings you monthly stories of outlaws and lawmen, soldiers and Indians, ranchers and townspeople...of inventions, intrigues, frontier cookery, Western humor, and Western travel. A fabulous gift for the Old West enthusiast and a souvenir of Tombstone that lasts all year.

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• The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp - Sharp research on the West's most colorful gunfighter, from his early days as a Kansas lawman through the Tombstone years, the Vendetta Ride, and the legend that followed.
• The Life and Times of Doc Holliday - Reports on what Wyatt's quirky sidekick was really like, from the Georgia dental office and the gambling tables to the gunfight and the Colorado years that ended his life.
• The Life and Times of John Clum - Insight into one of America's last great frontiersmen, the Epitaph's editor and mayor who met Geronimo during the Apache wars and helped build the young Tombstone's early civic life.
• Tombstone's Pioneering Prostitutes - Stories of the town's working women ... in vivid detail, from the Sixth Street parlor houses to the names, neighbors, and hard daily lives so often left out of Tombstone's best-known boomtown scandal.

Visit The Epitaph Museum

• Explore the 1880s museum of Arizona's oldest continuously published newspaper. Located on Fifth Street between Allen and Fremont Streets behind the Crystal Palace Saloon. FREE ADMISSION!
• Read the original 1881 reports of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Receive a reprint of the 1881 Epitaph with the original Gunfight reports as part of your O.K. Corral admission ticket.
• Learn how Epitaph editor, John Clum, captured the Apache warrior Geronimo and why he hired the Earps to defend Tombstone.
• Watch how The Epitaph was printed in the 1880s on the original Washington hand press. In the back shop, see composing stones, linotype machines, type cases, and interpretive displays that chronicle The Epitaph's "hot metal" days.