was a place in which it was hard to raise your kids."(Mike Flanagan, 1987) "Tombstone had a good side to it, the taxing of saloons and others provides the sole support for its school system. Tombstone’s saloons such as the Oriental established in 1880, and The Alhambra were just a few places that had been taxed. A reporter “that it was simply gorgeous, with its very well carpeted game room along with its marvel beauty” said the Oriental. The saloon had brought along a well-known person, Wyatt Earp, who had invested in and had owned half of it. Wyatt had brought along his Family in 1879 when he arrived with them in Tombstone. Do to mining mostly, the population had grown to 12 thousand, Wyatt later estimated that of the number of people "about 400 of them were cattle thieves, stage robbers, murderers, and outlaws."(Time-Life Books, 1987) "The whole entire country, from The White House on down, saw Tombstone as a hellhole, do to the fact that there was at least one person that was murdered everyday. One of the well-known murders was that of which 'curly Bill' Brocius pulled on Marshal White. Later a dangerous love triangle had formed between the Sheriff Johnny Behan, Josephine Marcus, and Wyatt who had taken her from he sheriff. Josie Earp, who had married Wyatt, said "that a grimly humorous phrase about Tombstone was it had had a man for breakfast every morning, meaning someone was killed every night." A photograph of Tombstone that was taken in 1885 when it was believed to be abandoned for some years before, do to the O.K.Corral shooting, and it is now a tourist attraction. There is also a things set up at the O.K. Corral where the fighters were believed to be at and now there are sculptures of them at those spots. Tombstone now takes pride in its famous slogan 'the town too tough to die' because it has never become an epitaph."(Joseph G. Rosa, 1993)"A few of the famous lawmen in the late 1880s had made th...
