Tombstone continues to work to preserves its Wild West roots, but has the historical town forgotten a piece of the puzzle? In a dusty town of miners, cowboys and wide-brimmed hats, fine dining is not the first image that comes to mind. But, with the success of the silver mines more than a century ago…
One insight struck Chia-Lin Pao Tao when she arrived in Tucson in 1976. She was most surprised by how few Asians she saw along with little, if any, marks of Chinese legacy in the area. Today, she knows differently. The Chinese have a long connection to Arizona’s past, playing substantial roles in the state’s development…
The town is noticeably quieter, the streets more empty. Allen Street hasn’t felt the same since the shooting in the Helldorado festival. “Tombstone just hasn’t felt like Tombstone without gun skits in the streets,” said Councilman Armando Villa. In a gun reenactment skit held by the Tombstone Vigilantes, a nonprofit that holds outdoor gun skits…
Dentro del Museo Histórico de Arizona, al lado del campus de la Universidad de Arizona, se exhibe en vidrio una revolver Colt .45 color crema que los oficiales del museo dicen que le pertenecía a la leyenda de Tombstone, Wyatt Earp. No tan rápido, dicen unos coleccionistas de armas y el historiador preeminente de la…
Los estudiantes de la preparatoria Tombstone obtienen un puntaje más elevado en las pruebas estandarizadas de matemáticas a comparación con la mayoría del resto de los estudiantes arizonenses. Eso no necesariamente son buenas noticias ya que en general, todos los estudiantes arizonenses obtienen una puntuación por debajo de la norma nacional. La cifra demuestra que…
