{"id":390,"date":"2011-09-24T21:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T04:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindacollison.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T20:09:17","slug":"postcards-from-tombstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/postcards-from-tombstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from Tombstone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tombstone, Arizona:\u00a0 A little history, a little kitch, and a lot of atmosphere.\u00a0 This\u00a0once violent town\u00a0attracted\u00a0 the resourceful, the greedy, the desperate, the lawless, the opportunists, the sociopaths.\u00a0\u00a0 “Listen Mr. Kansas Law Dog, law don’t go around here, savvy?”<\/em><\/p>\n

[Sidebar:\u00a0 The first novel I ever wrote (as an adult) was a western.\u00a0 This was decades ago, I was living in Cheyenne, Wyoming and inspired by all the big sky and tumbleweed and occasional real live cowboys I served while working\u00a0part time at The Hitching Post<\/a>\u00a0(which someone set on fire last year.)\u00a0 I entered it in a contest, it didn’t win.\u00a0 But it was the first of several practice novels.\u00a0 Who knows, maybe some day I’ll write another western…]<\/p>\n

Tombstone is both a real place and a myth.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0apocryphal, like Las Vegas,\u00a0Hawaii,\u00a0Shangri La,\u00a0Sodom and Gomorrah.\u00a0 The name is a metaphor and the place can never live up to its name.<\/p>\n

Tombstone is like a movie set but people actually live there.\u00a0 Some of the residents walk around in period costume, just because they want to.\u00a0 I’d wager most of the tourists are die hard\u00a0fans of the 1993\u00a0movie Tombstone<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, (the one with Kurt Russell, Val\u00a0Kilmer, Sam Elliot,\u00a0and Bill Paxton, Joanna Pacula, Micahel Biehn, Powers Boothe, et al…written by Kevin Jarre, directed by George Kasmatos)\u00a0of which I am one.\u00a0\u00a0 Fan, that is.\u00a0 \u00a0The movie Tombstone<\/em>\u00a0is considered a classic\u00a0 in our family.\u00a0 There is a quote\u00a0from Tombstone that fits just about any life situation you can think of.<\/p>\n

Here are some postcards from my recent journey to Tombstone:<\/p>\n

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Below is the cute little cowboy who served me my beer and burger.\u00a0 Note the pistol he’s packing.\u00a0 Originally weapons were banned inside the town limits, so this sidearm is probably a prop.\u00a0 Then again, this is modern day Arizona.\u00a0 A lot of everyday people are packin’ heat.\u00a0 Better leave him a nice tip…<\/p>\n

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Bartender at Big Nose Kate's<\/p><\/div>\n

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"Why Johnny Ringo! Madcap!"<\/p><\/div>\n

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"Hell's comin' with me."<\/p><\/div>\n

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A little Saturday night entertainment…<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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