Known as "The Town Too Tough To Die", Tombstone, AZ is the town know mostly for it's the famous gunfight in 1881, "The Gunfight at the OK Corral". The gunfight was between Wyatt, Morgan & Virgil Earp, Doc Holiday & the McLaury & Clanton brothers. It is not a movie set, but the real thing preserved just as it was in 1881, including the wooden sidewalks.
In 1881, Tombstone was "The Queen of Boom Towns". Though primarily known for it saloons, gambling houses & bordellos, it ended up becoming the most cultivated city in the west. It produced more than $1 million in silver in the 1890's.
Today, still preserved, tourists can jump back in time & enjoy seeing the Birdcage Theater, Crystal Palace Saloon, Boothill Graveyard, Tombstone Epitaph & The OK Corral just as it was back in the 1880's. See daily, re-enactments of the famous gunfight, witness the dramatic events of the silver boom, the great fire, from Geronimo's Apaches to modern times.