Cochise County Cowboys
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The Cochise County Cowboys is the modern name for a loosely associated group of outlaws living in Pima and Cochise Counties in Arizona in the late 19th century. The term "cowboy", as opposed to "cowha
An outlaw cowboy, Ike Clanton
Tombstone in 1881: The town had a population of about 4,000 with 600 dwellings and two church buildings.
Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan was aligned with the Cowboys
Tombstone sheriff and constituents, an illustration from Mexico, California and Arizona; Being a New and Revised Edition of Old Mexico and Her Lost Provinces
Wyatt Earp
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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and other lawmen killed t
Cochise County Cowboys
…The town had boomed in less than 18 months from about 100 miners living in tents and shacks to more than 7,000 people by December 1, 1879, when Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan Earp arrived in Tombstone. Virgil Earp had been appointed deputy U.S. marshal for eastern Pima County in Prescott and was directed to…
Earp and his mother Virginia Ann Cooksey Earp c. 1855
Earp's boyhood home in Pella, Iowa
Looking east from D St. toward 3rd St. in downtown San Bernardino in 1864
Lamar, Missouri, subpoena signed by Constable Wyatt Earp, February 28, 1870