Court House, Hangings and Boot Hill

Yesterday we visited the Boot Hill Grave Yard and the Court House.  We also had lunch in Tombstone and had BBQ.  It was great.  We visited the Courthouse for a cost of $14 and there should have been a law against that because it was a robbery for sure.  Not much inside to see but photos and the office of the District Attorney and the Court rooms.  There most interesting thing to me was the gallows.  I did not post a lot of the photos for the court house because they are the same thing you would expect to see in any court house.  The court room was the same as you have seen in photo in real life.

These are the graves of the men killed in the gun fight at the OK corral.  Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury.  The second photo shows an extension of the first photo these three were buried side by side in the Boot Hill Cemetery















John Heath apparently planned a robbery in Bisbee not far from Tombstone but did not participate in it.  The five other men were caught and hanged but John Heath was given life.  A mob from Bisbee corrected that mistake and took him from the jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole


Would not have wanted to be George Johnson.  He was hanged by mistake.  The tombstone reads he was right we were wrong but we strung him up and now he is gone.


This is my favorite.  I read about this is a book years ago and saw a picture of the tombstone.  It was funny then and funny now in person!

This is the court house and jail.  They tried and hung them in one place
This is the  hanging place or gallows

This is the newspaper office where all the news from miles around was reported.  They did big articles of the OK Corral shootout and they were big supporters of the Earp's 

Some cowboy working inside took this for us.





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