Cochise

A Pictorial Souvenir of Tombstone, Arizona

A Sketch of Allen Street, Tombstone in 1940s

In this pictorial souvenir of Tombstone, Blythe endeavors to present to you the buildings of Tombstone as they looked in 1940s through pencil sketches, although the majority of the buildings were built between 1879 and 1882. One of the prime highlights of the town is the old Bird Cage Theatre, which offered in its heyday, “stupendous, colossal attractions” by night, gambling and drinking by day, has been turned into a museum and is filled with mementos of the town’s early history. You have missed a prime sight if you fail to see Tombstone, heart of the old Southwest where history was written with six-shooters.

Cochise, War Chief of the Chiricahua

In the early 1860s, John Ward, an Irishman, lost his adopted son Mickey Free and cattle to a raid believed to be conducted by Cochise’s Chiricahua Apaches. Colonel Morrison dispatched Lieutenant Bascom to Apache Pass to recover them. After a tense meeting, Cochise denied involvement, offering to help locate the raiders. Tensions escalated after Bascom detained Cochise and his companions, leading to violent reprisals from the Apaches and a cycle of conflict, marked by Cochise’s vow for revenge against white settlers.