Volume 45 - No. 24
On July 23, 1882, the Crystal Palace Saloon, Tombstone, Arizona, opened its doors. The shining crystal ware and the affable management soon had a monopoly on those prominent citizens from all over town who wanted the best drink coupled with all the pertinent town news dispensed by the fortunate office holders above. The Crystal Palace became the place most frequented by those individuals prominent in the business and social registers of Tombstone.
To have an office on the second floor of this building was tantamount to having the best address in Tombstone. The offices upstairs were crowded with those names now familiar to millions. The front office facing Allen Street was occupied by Virgil W. Earp. Virgil Earp was serving in the dual capacity as Marshal of Tombstone and Deputy United States Marshal. The records reveal that his address in Tombstone was listed as the Office Building Above the Crystal Palace, Fifth and Allen, Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
Since business depended largely, if not entirely on the mines, it was possible at any hour to find the owners and managers in the Crystal Palace indulging themselves with the finest spirits obtainable. Mine officials, gunmen, prospectors, rustlers, lawyers, stage coach bandits, all there.
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Brothel in Jerome, AZ. Jennie's Place. It was built in 1898 by Legendary Madam Belgian Jennie Bauters. She became the richest woman in the Arizona territory before she was murdered.
Things inside a covered wagon.
John "Jack" McCall 1852 or 1853 – March 3, 1877), also known as "Crooked Nose Jack" or "Broken Nose Jack", was the murderer of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok, shooting him from behind while he played poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory on August 2, 1876.
Fearing for his safety, McCall soon left the area and headed into Wyoming Territory, where he repeatedly bragged about killing Hickok in a "fair" gunfight. The federal court in Yankton, Dakota Territory, declared that McCall should be tried in Yankton for Hickok's murder, and was quickly found guilty. After almost three months in jail, he was hanged on March 1, 1877, aged 24. He was buried in the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Yankton County, South Dakota.
Brothel token for Emma Johnson's "House of All Nations" brothel in the notorious Storyville district of New Orleans, early 1900s
Bill Doolin (1858-1896) founder of the Wild Bunch gang. Died from shotgun blast August 24, 1896, by Deputy U.S. Marshall Heck Thomas in Lawson, Oklahoma Territory. Roamed the Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma territory. Was 38 years old when killed.
The cemetery was moved in 1881, when McCall's body was exhumed and found to have the noose still around his neck. McCall was the first person to be executed by federal officials in the Dakota Territory. The killing of Hickok and the capture of McCall is reenacted every summer evening in Deadwood.
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Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger was an American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War and later a leader with the James-Younger gang. He was the eldest brother of Jim, John and Bob Younger. Imprisoned, later lectured and toured in a show. Cole Younger died March 21, 1916, at home.