the groundhog day project

I lament the fact that we arrived in Tombstone too late last week to get into a few of the places. But, driving into town, we saw Boothill Cemetery first. The gift shop/entrance had this on the door: Doc Holiiday (Val Kilmer) didn’t need his guns just now to kill a man, of course, in Tombstone . Set his guns on the table and stabbed the guy instead. Sure enough, Holliday was a bit of a killer and not a particularly nice guy. Some graves, starting with the Cowboys killed at the “Gunfight at the O.K Corral”: And, this marker which could fit right in outside the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland: A couple more: Two gift shops—and a shot glass for my collection later and we drove into the town proper, parked about 20 yards from this: For the record, once again, the gunfight did not happen at the Corral but a good distance off, next to Fly’s Photographic Studio. right about where I was standing when I took these pictures: first, on fremont looking east, the porch at the ri...

In the 1880s, it was apparently an insult to call a cattleman a "cowboy" (at least around Tombstone). (To be fair, the titular town of Warlock is in Utah, a good distance from Tombstone.) This may have been because of the Cochise County Cowboys (Johnny Ringo, Ike Clanton and their ilk), or they may have been called cowboys because the term was in disfavor. The negative take on cowboy did get outside of Arizona; the San Francisco Examiner, as quoted in The Earp-Holliday Trial: An Account , said in 1881, "Cowboys [are] the most reckless class of outlaws in that wild country... infinitely worse than the ordinary robber" (Linder, 2005). I mention this because the people of Warlock refer to the outlaws who occasionally come into town to make trouble the San Pablo Cowboys . In terms of Wright's (1975) oppositions--Wright does not mention Warlock specifically--this suggests a clear division between the townspeople and the cowboys. If these were legitimate cowboys...