Just in time for Halloween, a good travel article about Tombstone, Arizona, from the Los Angeles Times.
They say ghosts walk the streets of this dusty desert town. It’s easy to understand why.
With a name like Tombstone and a frenzied history of bloodshed, this outpost near the southwestern edge of the United States has a reputation that’s — well, haunted. And it doesn’t help to see a dozen gunslingers die each day in the town’s sandy red dirt.
The fights are staged, but Tombstone’s checkered past is real, I learned when I spent a few days here earlier this month searching for ghosts. Tombstone, which advertises itself as “The Town Too Tough to Die,” surprised me. So did the spirits of its past.