Tombstone and Mt. Lemmon

Our next stop was Tombstone, where we enjoyed the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, a private museum owned by Stephen and Marge Elliott. When we told him we were from Pennsylvania, Stephen said that Steve Reed was his best customer ever, spending over $1,000,000 at once. (While Mr. Elliott didn't know it, that purchase was probably one of the reasons Steve Reed was voted out last fall as the mayor of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital.) The museum was loaded with artifacts, including pictures, letters, newspapers, guns, jewelry, and even rocks from Wyatt Earp's last mining camp. Pictures are not allowed to be taken in the museum, but these signs provide a taste of what can be seen there:




Stephen and Marge Elliott also own the Silver Lady Antiques shop:


This street is closed to automotive traffic:






The Tombstone Courthouse is now a state park. It was built in 1882 and was the Cochise County courthouse for a few years until the county seat was moved to Bisbee.




Tombstone welcomes dogs:


Inside the Tombstone Epitaph, a newspaper which has been published continuously since the 1880s. Just an old softy?


Think again!


The Boothill Cemetery grave of a man mistakenly convicted and hanged in Tombstone:


The graves of Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Tom McLaury, who were killed at the OK Corral on October 26, 1881:


Mt. Lemmon looms over Tucson. In the time it takes to drive the 22 miles to its peak, the landscape changes from scorching desert to snow-covered pine forest!

Overlooking Tucson from a low point on Mt. Lemmon:


The Seven Cataracts (waterfalls) on Mt. Lemmon:


The top two waterfalls:


Sometime in the past, a van went over the side and into the canyon at the Seven Cataracts:


Hoodoos on Mt. Lemmon:






A Mexican jay on Mt. Lemmon:






A Beaudry neighbor climbing to his roof to photograph the March 29th sunset:




The Beaudry RV Resort is beautifully landscaped with cacti, yellow noisette roses, oleander, bottle brush trees, and citrus trees. Everyone is urged to collect as much fruit as they can use, so we froze lots of lemon juice!