You're very welcome. Does the book provide any footnote or citation for the claim that a troupe was held in a Tombstone jail in 1883?

Ronni,

Mike and I are working on doing a post-release podcast to discuss the book and new material more in-depth. If he and I can ever get on the same schedule, it will happen. (Thank you, MM)

Mike

Chuck,

You mentioned the Adela Rogers St. Johns interview during a presentation at TTR going back 8 years or more. I never forgot it and have intermittently been putting in effort to locate it. While I have not yet been successful, there has been progress. I've located an NBC radio show she hosted ...

The "too tough to die" concept of Tombstone's history is undeniably highlighted by the near economic fallouts as mining, local ranching, offices of the county seat, railroad infrastructure, etc ebbed and flowed. The drama of a town that nearly collapsed and yet somehow survived long enough for pop ...

Having covered much ground in the theatrical department of Tombstone for my book, I took notice of your question. In late summer 1883, there was a great scare of yellow fever plaguing many towns across the border in Mexico. Travel facilitated the spreading of viruses, so travel-heavy performance ...

This interesting clipping (transcribed below), and the timing of it, begs questions. It appeared in the April 16, 1938 Arizona Republic.

Life Of Wyatt Earp Will Be Book Basis
TOMBSTONE, Apr. 15-Mrs. Josephine Earp, widow of Wyatt Earp, pioneer peace officer of the Southwest, is completing a book on ...

Perhaps a coincidence -- there was a Virgie Earle that performed at the Bird Cage in June 1888. (I can't resist tossing in BC tidbits.)
MPM