Qualla: The Tombstone Epitaph https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/9/s/the-tombstone-epitaph-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Tombstone Epitaph https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph The Tombstone Epitaph: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph/ Photo credit Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0. His friends teased him mercilessly. Moving to a town called Tombstone to start a newspaper? They said he would write an epitaph, not a newspaper. John Philip Clum took the joke and ran with it, launching The Tombstone Epitaph in May 1880. That sardonic name would become legendary, for the newspaper would chronicle one of the bloodiest chapters in frontier history and outlast the very boomtown that gave it birth. Today it stands as Arizona's oldest continuously published newspaper, a survivor of silver busts, changing technologies, and 146 years of American history.

Read more: The Tombstone Epitaph on Qualla

Image: Marine 69-71 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/9/s/the-tombstone-epitaph-wp/9t9s-the-tombstone-epitaph-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Tombstone Epitaph: The Frontiersman's Quill https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph/ Photo credit Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0. John Clum was no ordinary newspaper publisher. Before arriving in Tombstone, he had served as the U.S. government agent at San Carlos Apache Reservation, where he accomplished something no military commander ever managed: capturing Geronimo. The legendary Apache leader was later ...

Read more: The Tombstone Epitaph on Qualla

Image: Marine 69-71 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/9/s/the-tombstone-epitaph-wp/9t9s-the-tombstone-epitaph-the-frontiersmans-quill.mp3 0:06 2 full The Tombstone Epitaph: Thirty Seconds in October https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph/ Photo credit Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the cold afternoon of October 26, 1881, near the O.K. Corral, tensions that had been building for months exploded in thirty seconds of gunfire. Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and their tubercular friend Doc Holliday faced off against the Clanton-McLaury faction kn...

Read more: The Tombstone Epitaph on Qualla

Image: Marine 69-71 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/9/s/the-tombstone-epitaph-wp/9t9s-the-tombstone-epitaph-thirty-seconds-in-october.mp3 0:06 3 full The Tombstone Epitaph: Surviving the Silver Bust https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph/ Photo credit Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0. The year 1886 marked the beginning of the end for boomtown Tombstone. Silver prices collapsed and the mines filled with water, transforming a city of seven thousand into a near ghost town. The Epitaph survived, though it could never recapture the prominence of its early years. Su...

Read more: The Tombstone Epitaph on Qualla

Image: Marine 69-71 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/9/s/the-tombstone-epitaph-wp/9t9s-the-tombstone-epitaph-surviving-the-silver-bust.mp3 0:06 4 full The Tombstone Epitaph: From Frontier Press to Living Museum https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph/ Photo credit Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Epitaph's offices on Allen Street house more than a working publication. Inside Tombstone's oldest continuously operated business, visitors find the Washington flatbed press that printed early issues, a museum devoted to the era of hot metal printing, and rare photographs fro...

Read more: The Tombstone Epitaph on Qualla

Image: Marine 69-71 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/9/s/the-tombstone-epitaph-wp/9t9s-the-tombstone-epitaph-from-frontier-press-to-living-museum.mp3 0:06 5 full The Tombstone Epitaph: The Name That Endured https://qualla.com/the-tombstone-epitaph/ Photo credit Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0. Television brought Tombstone into American living rooms during the late 1950s. The series Tombstone Territory featured a fictionalized version of The Epitaph and its editor in many episodes from 1957 to 1960, while The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp devoted episodes to both the ne...

Read more: The Tombstone Epitaph on Qualla

Image: Marine 69-71 | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/t/9/s/the-tombstone-epitaph-wp/9t9s-the-tombstone-epitaph-the-name-that-endured.mp3 0:06 6 full