A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in Tombstone has continued to inspire an Old West legend with a fascinating story behind it ...

Actually, I don’t want a tombstone. I want a used parking meter with the sign saying “expired.” And leave the slot where you put money in for people to place coins.

When you pick it up from the Tombstone Epitaph, the 1880’s museum of Arizona’s oldest newspaper, which is still published today, you can learn about John Clum who owned newspaper and who also ...

In Tombstone,* Ariz., one of the toughest western mining camps of the '80s, it was only natural that the daily paper should be named the Epitaph. It was not because, as one old miner once ...

An epitaph is a single sentence or phrase usually placed on a tombstone. This short comment is supposed to summarize an individual's life or accomplishments in a single phrase.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. As humorously explained in “Epitaph,” the infamous shootout was located at the O.K. Corral in 1881 newspaper accounts ...

The 1993 "Tombstone" was directed by George P. Cosmatos and starred Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Powers Boothe, Bill Paxton and, of course, the late Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.

Tombstone carved a rep as the “Town Too Tough To Die!” (the first newspaper was aptly titled The Tombstone Epitaph) for its draw of not only silver rushers but outlaws.

In her last talk with her girls at Mount Holyoke Seminary, Mary Lyon said, with wonderful earnestness, the words now iscribed on her tombstone in the seminary grounds: "There is nothing in the ...

Tombstone isn't notorious for it's minerals, though. Everything changed on Oct. 16, 1881, when a long-simmering feud erupted into a shootout near the now legendary O.K. Corral.

Editor and historian Dean Prichard died March 18 after a short illness. Prichard became editor of the national edition of the Tombstone Epitaph in 1974 and oversaw it until an accident last year ...