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Frank McLaury

Photo courtesy Arizona Historical Society. Sources: Don Chaput, Dr. Goodfellow; Richard Dunlop, Doctors of the American Frontier; George W. Parsons, The Private Journal of George Whitwell Parsons.
Feb 12, 2013

Tombstone’s Surgeon to the Gunfighters

Dr. George Goodfellow with his horse, a gift from Mexico’s President Porfirio Diaz.

Nov 1, 2010

Tombstone’s Boothill Cemetery

The Boothill Cemetery, which was laid out in 1878 on a rocky hillside facing the Dragoon Mountains, earned the name for a reason. If a body was buried not wearing boots, it meant the person died of natural causes. If the body was buried wearing boots, it meant the person was killed.

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