Tales of Old Tombstone Stuart Rosebrook & Bob Boze Bell

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.