Tombstone


             liquor establishments. Because of the way the people are in Tombstone it was a place in which it
             was hard to raise your kids."(Mike Flanagan, 1987)
             "Tombstone had a good side to it, the taxing of saloons and others provides the sole support
             for its school system. Tomstone's saloons such as the Oriental established in 1880, and The
             Alhambra were just a few places that had been taxed. The Oriental was said by a reporter "that it
             was simply gorgeous, with its very well carpeted game room along with its marvel beauty." The
             saloon had brought along a well known person, Wyatt Earp, who had invested in and had owned
             half of it. Wyatt had brought along his Family in 1879 when he arrived with them in Tombstone.
             Do to mining mostly, the poulation had grown to 12 thousand, Wyatt later estimated that of the
             number of people "about 400 of them were cattle thieves, stage rodbbers, murderers, and outlaws."
             "The whole entire country, from The White House on down, saw Tombstone as a hellhole,
             do to the fact that there was at least one person that was murdered everyday. One of the well
             known murders was that of which 'curly Bill' Brocius pulled on Marshal White. Later a
             dangerous love triangle had formed between the Sheriff Johnny Behan, Josephine Marcus, and
             Wyatt who had taken her from he sheriff. The sheriff really dispised Wyatt and always had that is
             why it was said to be dangerous. Josi
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