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Buckey O’Neill and the A&P Train Robbery
Buckey O’Neill had been a newspaper reporter with the Tombstone Epitaph when the OK Corral shootout occurred in 1881. The following year he moved to Prescott and worked as a court reporter and founded his own newspaper, Hoof and Horn, serving the livestock industry. He became captain of a local unit of the Arizona militia in 1886 and was elected Yavapai County sheriff in 1888.
The Lore of Charleston
On an outing from Fort Huachuca, this trio of unidentified soldiers hiked through a dense mesquite bosque to a clearing overlooking the San Pedro River near the crumbling remains of Charleston.
‘The Epitaph’ — A paper too tough to die
John Clum figured that every tombstone needed an epitaph. In 1880, he founded Tombstone, Arizona's, most famous newspaper, The Epitaph. He prided himself on providing his readers the opportunity to read their epitaph every day before breakfast.
