VACATION AND TRAVEL
Now, still inside is the infamous Bird Cage Poker Table where the longest poker game in history was played in the basement. Those who wished to play had to buy-in for a thousand dollars. Among
Now, nearby is the Tombstone Epitaph. Visit the 1880s museum of Arizona's oldest newspaper. Still published today, the Epitaph is located on Fifth Street. Read the original 1881 reports of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. A reprint of the 1881 Epitaph with the original Gunfight reports is included free with your O.K. Corral admission ticket. Watch how The Epitaph was printed in the 1880s on the original Washington hand press.
Now, this next place is a gem, and that is the 1881 Bird Cage Theatre. The Bird Cage Theatre opened on December 26, 1881. After the Theatre opened, they hosted a Ladies Night for the respectable women of Tombstone, who could attend for free. But the economics of Tombstone
did not support their aspirations. They soon canceled the Ladies Night and began offering baser entertainment that appealed to the rough mining crowd. The walls of the Bird Cage were riddled with gunshot holes from gunfighters and the local Miners of the American frontier.
Then there are also the life-size figures of the eight gunfighters located on the very spot where the Gunfight began. This 30-second gunfight left three cowboys dead and Marshalls Virgil and Morgan Earp wounded. While you are here you can see Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Virgil, and Morgan Earp fight the McLaury’s and Clanton’s in daily reenactments of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in The Streets of Tombstone Theater.