Tombstone - March 3, 2012

We made the long ride to Tombstone and back in one day.  Not again!  We left Queen Valley, traveling south through Florence along the Pinal Pioneer Parkway to Oro Valley and I10.  You go east on I10 to Benson and then south to Tombstone.  We came back to I10 and traveled east and then north to Safford - Globe - Superior and home.  We got to see the beautiful Gila Valley Temple as we passed through Safford Valley.

Street in front of OK Corral

Entrance to OK Corral Reenactment

Cochise County Courthouse 1882

Named after founder

City Hall 

1881

Outside the Saloon

Stagecoach & Wagon

$37,000,000 in silver mined in 8 yrs.

Ore cars

Oriental Saloon

Wells Fargo Office

Bird Cage Theater - Original items

Famous in Western History

Desert Graveyard restored

Billy Clanton-Tom McLaury-Frank McLaury
OK Corral Gunfight - Part of "The Cowboys"

Laid out in 1878 as Tombstone Cemetery

Wyatt Earp Tombstone buildings

Terrain of area

Texas Canyon east of Benson

Arizona Renaissance Festival - February 25, 2012

What a different experience.  This festival is located between Queen Valley and Gold Canyon on about a hundred acres.  It is a type of carnival reflected with vendors and games with people in period dress.  However, they also added pirates and gypsies to the mix.  The jousting was a theatrical jousting and not the real thing.  Other shows were interesting.

Our cheer maiden

 The Queen and court

Sir Maxamillian - our knight

Tipping over the target

Our winner

Elephant ride

Some rocking horse

Bullwhip cutting paper as she spins

Cutting flowers in in arms

She is holding a rose in teeth

Birds of Prey- Red-tailed hawk

Vulture from So. America

King Owl - largest of the horned owls

Two owls

Another Vulture

Look at the size

Peregrine Falcon

Another Vulture

Entertainers at the court

Troll

Peasant cottage

King and court eating at cottage

Barely Balanced - the best act.

Nogales - Hitting the Border

Thursday, February 23, 2012, We decided to take a ride to Nogales, AZ to see what the border-town looked like.  We also stopped at  Tubac-Presideo Historic State Park.  We passed Tumacacori Mission Natl. Monument since it was getting late.  It looked very interesting and will be something we might go back to later when we go to the Titan Missle Museum.

Santa Rita Mtns.

More Desert-like area

Santa Cruz Co. Court House

Corner in Nogales

Spanish Prediseo

Last walls standing

Church on grounds

A marriage-Prickly Pear & Mesquite

Grinder of ores

Grain grinder

Hand grinders

Spanish History

Mexican History

Carved dolls

First Printing press/newspaper in AZ

Stable

Cultural gathering house

Schoolhouse

Classroom/stage

1872 Instructions to the Teacher:
1.  Teachers will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks each day.
2.  Each teacher will bring a scuttle of coal and a bucket of water for the days use.
3.  Make your pens carefully.  You may whittle nibs for the individual tastes of children.
4.  Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5.  After ten hours in the school the teacher should spend the remaining time reading the Bible and other good books.
6.  Women teachers who marry or engage in other unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7.  Every teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reasons to suspect his worth, intentions, integrity and honesty.
8.  The teacher who performs his labors faithfully without fault for five years will be given an increase of 25 cents a week in his pay -- providing the Board of Education approves.

The trip was worth it, just to laugh at these rules.