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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

'I'm your huckleberry' turns 25

‘I’m your huckleberry’ turns 25

Elise McClain April 25, 2018

It’s been nearly 25 years since actor Val Kilmer uttered the infamous line, “I’m your huckleberry” as he walked the set of “Tombstone,” a film that rejuvenated this entire Southern Arizona...

Town crier draws a crowd before the gunfight reenactment. Photo by Kayla Belcher / Arizona Senora News

Playing cowboy in a street actor’s fantasyland

Allison De Fina February 14, 2018

Men and women travel from around the globe to dress up and play cowboy in Tombstone, where everyday is Halloween. Many of the Tombstone actors have zero desire to move to Hollywood to pursue a silver-screen...

The O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. on Sept. 30, 2017. The O.K. Corral has drawn visitors from all over to see reenactments of the famous gunfight between the lawmen and the cowboys of the Old West. (Photographed by Leah Gilchrist)

Vigilante justice paves a centuries long history for Tombstone

Leah Gilchrist October 18, 2017

A gunfight that happened in less than a minute in Tombstone on Oct. 26, 1881, left the town with an immortalized piece of history, and a place on the map. The shootout between Wyatt Earp, his brothers...

A third of the graves in Boothill hold unknown bodies. Photo by Devon Confrey / Arizona Sonora News Service

Tombstone rests on Boothill

Devon Confrey March 3, 2016
TOMBSTONE, Ariz. – George Johnson’s mouth landed him in Boothill. See where he's buried in an interactive map.
La pistola de Wyatt Earp en exhibición en el Museo de Historia de Arizona (Fotografía por Zachary Pleeter/Arizona Sonora News Service).

¿Qué fue de las armas de Wyatt Earp?

Alicia Vega October 20, 2015

Dentro del Museo Histórico de Arizona, al lado del campus de la Universidad de Arizona, se exhibe en vidrio una revolver Colt .45 color crema que los oficiales del museo dicen que le pertenecía a la...

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