Newsletter Archive

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• August 2026
  Issue 6: The Woman Who Ran Hoptown, By a Name No One Can Agree On

  China Mary ran Tombstone's Chinese quarter for over two decades under a name the historical record can't confirm; a fictional 1890s miner walks through the boomtown's surprisingly modern conveniences; and Clara Spalding Brown, the other Tombstone diarist, gets her due.

• July 2026
  Issue 5: The 137 Women Behind Tombstone's Boom

  The businesswomen who built a second economy on Allen Street, and Richard Gird, the engineer who confirmed Ed Schieffelin's silver find and quietly split his fortune with the Schieffelin brothers.

• June 2026
  Issue 4: The Photographer Who Walked Into Geronimo's Camp

  C.S. Fly, the only civilian to photograph a hostile Apache camp before surrender; the miners' strike that began Tombstone's decline in 1884; and John P. Clum, the twenty-five-year-old who captured Geronimo and later founded the Tombstone Epitaph.

• May 2026
  Issue 3: The Surgeon Who Was Always There

  Dr. George Goodfellow, the frontier physician present at nearly every defining moment of Tombstone's boom years, plus four new articles and a Did You Know about the reservation land Tombstone was built on.

• April 2026
  Issue 2: The Bird Cage Theatre

  Tombstone's rowdiest variety hall, four new articles on the site, and an invitation to Ed Schieffelin Days on April 18.

• March 2026
  Issue 1: When the Miners Walked Out

  Tombstone's miners' strike of 1884, the newest article on the site, and a Did You Know story about the fire that changed the town's fortunes forever.