Tales of Old Tombstone

This week, join Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell with their special guest, Arizona travel writer Peter Corbett.   Corbett has been writing about Arizona for five decades and has been touring Tombstone and Cochise County since the mid-70s.   He has a passion for history and shares with us his favorite places to visit, stay, eat and drink in Tombstone and across the back roads of Southeastern Arizona.

On this week's episode of "Tales of Old Tombstone" host Stuart Rosebrook visits with Western historian Mark Boardman. The editor of "The Tombstone Epitaph" and features editor of "True West," Boardman shares with us his expertise on how to immerse yourself in history in Tombstone and Cochise County.   They discuss the upcoming Tombstone festivals, places to stay such as Tombstone Monument Ranch and the top attractions in and out of town. Remembering Memorial Day, Boardman shares how a visitor can go to Fort Bowie and Fort Huachuca to pay your respects to our veterans who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States of America.

In the Territorial days of Old Tombstone and Cochise County, firearms were part of everyday life and survival. Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell share a lively conversation with world-renowned Old West firearms expert and "True West" firearms editor Phil Spangenberger about the guns of Old Tombstone, the Earps, Clantons, Cowboys, ranch women and soiled doves. 

On this week's episode of Tales of Old Tombstone, Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell are regaled with tales of John Clum, Tombstone and the origins of The Tombstone Epitaph by the newspaper's current editor, Mark Boardman. How did John Clum start the longest running paper in "the town too tough to die?" Why did he leave? Why did he come back? Discover how an audacious Indian Agent became the most famous newspaper man in Tombstone history.

On this week's episode of "Tales of Old Tombstone," Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell go deep with award-winning historian Chris Enss on the life and times of Kate Elder, her life in Tombstone and her loving but volitiale relationship with Doc Holliday. 

Ever wondered about the history of cars, music and beehive hairdos on Route 66? Hosts Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook have a rumble with the King of the Road himself Jim Hinckley about growing up beside The Mother Road, the best versions of "Route 66," Elvis sightings, AM radio, Perfume Pass, hot rods and the best pie in Mohave County!

How did Virgil Earp become a lawman? Join hosts Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell in an in-depth conversation with historian Brad Courtney about Virgil Earp and how the Civil War veteran Virgil became a peace officer on the mile-high, Wild West streets of the rough and tumble mining town of Prescott, The Territorial Capital of Arizona.

Ever wonder what the connection is between the Civil War and the outlaws of the Wild West? Take a ride back to the Missouri-Kansas Border War and learn from Bob Boze Bell the connections between the James Boys and the Missouri Bushwhackers, the Cowboys vs. the Earps in Tombstone and Cochise County, the Cowboy gangs of the bootheel of New Mexico and the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid and Pat Garret

Tombstone is legendary for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Earps, Doc Holiday and the Clantons. But at the same time the Earps and the Cowboys were fighting for control of the rich mining town, the U.S. Army was waging a war against Geronimo and the Chiricahua Apaches. Dr. John Langellier, America's most published author on the African American frontier troopers, known as the Buffalo Soldiers, joins Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell on "Tales of Old Tombstone" the significant role the Black troops played in the history of Tombstone, the war with Geronimo and Cochise County.

 Have you ever wondered about the truth behind Doc Holliday and the Earps in Prescott. This weeks episode of "Tales of Old Tombstone" Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell talk with Prescott historian Brad Courtney about the truth versus the legend of the famed gunfighters in the Arizona Territorial capital in 1879 and 1880.        

On this week's episode of "Tales of Old Tombstone," historians and two-lane road warriors Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell talk about Bob's adventures in Tombstone the past 50 years. 

In today's Tombstone adventure we tell you more about Bob Bose Bell.  Bob is one of the premier historians and artists of the western tradition.  He started by learning about Wyatt Earp and Tombstone. He also took some time to learn about Billy the Kid the gunman, and then the Lawman, Wyatt Earp And so join with Stuart Rosebrook as he joins with Bob in a conversation about how he has spent over 40 years doing what he was made to do and what he loves to do, and that is to tell you stories about the bad and the good and all of the true stories that make up the wild west tradition, and how it affects us even today. Indeed you will learn more here by accident than most places by design and have fun too.

Award-winning Western author and preeminent travel writer Johnny D. Boggs joins fellow road warriors Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell on Tales of Old Tombstone to share how a South Carolina boy transplanted himself from the Low Country to the American Southwest

Ride along with us in Episode 3 of "Tales of Old Tombstone" and discover how Arizona's most beloved historian Marshall Trimble went from dreaming of being a railroad engineer to becoming the Grand Canyon state's most beloved Western storyteller. 

A rollicking conversation with "The Tombstone Epitaph" editor Mark Boardman and "True West" features editor on his love of the Old West and how he became editor of the most storied paper of "the town too tough to die." 

Western historians Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell have a rollicking conversation with dude ranch entrepreneur Russell True. Raised in Tucson, Arizona, on his parents' dude ranch, The White Stallion, True has dedicated his life to maintaining the heritage and history of the historic White Stallion while expanding the True Ranch Collection to include guest ranches in Utica, Montana, Wickenburg, Sasabe and Tombstone, Arizona, including the Tombstone Monument Ranch.  A member of the Arizona Tourism Hall of Fame, True was recently inducted into the Dude Ranchers' Association's Hall of Fame for his dedicated service to the internationally renowned Western hospitality organization. Rosebrook and Bell discover in their conversation with True the history and heritage of film making, Hollywood stars and artists that made the White Stallion one of the finest guest ranches in the West.