Tombstone, AZ bills itself as “The Town Too Tough To Die” and maybe that’s so. I decided I had to learn a little more about what the town was all about. I started at the Visitor’s Center where I was given a map of the town and some information on events. Before I go any further let me state that the town is very commercial. If you’re looking for a real Wild West experience you’re about 130 years too late. But, you can get some sense of what the Wild West was like. I got to Main Street a little early. Tombstone is not a morning town. I visited a museum, the Bird Cage Theatre, where I photographed the hearse. I also did the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral show. It was entertaining. I also visited Boot Hill, the cemetery from the old days. The last picture of the group is of a solar trash compactor, the only one I’ve ever seen. If you look closely, you’ll see it’s more than a little full of trash. If I had to sum up Tombstone in one word it would be commercial. But, it really did get me thinking. There is a lot of history in the annals of Tombstone. Tombstone is one of the more interesting places in the history of the Old West. If you take an interest, you’ll find many records of what happened in the town. Tombstone was a very active community and it is said that the mining operations of the area produced as much as  $626 million of revenue in today’s dollars.