Today we arrive at the infamous Tombstone Graveyard, a "must see" according to one flier. Well let me tell ya partner, this here graveyard is ....a grave..yard. 
For you non western movie people, this is the graveyard where the Clanton's are buried. Theses cowboys came to Tombstone to have a good time and shoot up the town but the law, meaning the Earp's, (Watt and his brothers didn't take a "cotton" to them.) So they cornered them at the infamous OK corral and had an old fashioned "shoot out". After which these graves were dug. And now we stand here and wonder what we are doing here?
I can't vouch for the authenticity of this headstone. 
Obviously, this town had a morbid idea of entertainment. Oh, by the way, The elevation in Tombstone in 4,541 ft. This is pretty high for most of Arizona, maybe the height affected their thinking and actions?
Goes to show the little town of Bisbee, which is now a well known artist and craft person hangout, had it's sorted past of boredom of what to do for entertainment. 
What can I say, nobody is perfect, we all make mistakes at one time or another.
We didn't have time to take a picture of every "tombstone", though Diane did walk around and read every one's name. 
This dud was killed playing cards.
Finally, we get back to the living, actually this is a well preserved bar that is in a gift shop. 
As we "mosey" down the wooden sidewalks of Old Tombstone, who knows what or who we might encounter?
Diane has found an "old" and I mean Old... Cowboy? He didn't have much to say, but Diane found him "captivating"?. 
And then there is the Old Courthouse, I imagine the tales it could tell.
After a long day of "poking" around, evening sets and the coyotes sing us to sleep.
Git-along all you little dogies, it is time to settle down, for tomorrow the sun will rise and we will head on down the trail. (Diane says that Tombstone was much more interesting then Deadwood) so for all our RVing "partners" on the "trail" skip Deadwood and "roam" on down south to Tombstone for a real western experience.
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