Travels In Arizona - Tombstone - Volume 2

This book is pictorial, approximated 65 pages in length and contains more than 60 full page color images. This is Volume 2 in a series of three.

Tombstone Arizona was founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin, a miner who discovered silver in what was then Pima county of the Arizona Territory. The town is most well known for the Gun fight at the O.K. corral in which deputy U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Wyatt’s brothers participated in a gunfight with the Clanton brothers and some of their associates which resulted in three men being killed. The fight was widely publicized throughout the country and in “dime novels” and has since been the subject of numerous movies and television series.

Although the silver mines have long closed the town still is prosperous as a tourist destination as it still maintains the old cowboy/western culture popularized by western movies and television and is complete with wooden sidewalks, saloons, dirt streets and many dressed in character complete with six-shooter period revolvers.

The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior. After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine.

Since that time he has had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science.

After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera, hoisting a large medium format 6x7, or indeed still using a 35mm film camera.

The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona.