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Tombstone Informati^ ^ SALOONS > Nose Kate's Saloon & Patio Restaurant 1 Dedicated to Doc Holiday's impetuous, tough, fearless girlfriend. ^ -r ^ Serving good grub. Come join us (520)4^57-3107 Tombstone Informati^ ^ Johnny Bingo's Saloon Museum of over OFFICE Of TOURISM 1-800-457-3423 69 600 military patches (520)457-3961 hist Chamber of CofTimen» (5201 457-9317 Legends of the West Historic saloon featuring antiriues Wsftor's Center (520)457-3929 70 and photos of gunfighters and old cowtioyson d^ilay (520)457-3055 Vogan'S Alley Bar Restored 1880 bar in its original 71 location serving beer, wine & sandwiches, big screen. Best 1/2-lb burgers in the West (520}457-.3101 TOURS>■ Truly a Historical American Land Ironhorse Guest Ranch lodging on the All-American 72 plan, horseback riding, musical entertainment, visit Tumbleweed mark, Tombstone is America's best Town (800) 689-9361 (520)457-9361 example of our 1880 western Jeep Tour^ilhe tombstone Motel offers Jeep tours of "Cochise heritage. 73 Stronghold", "iheep's Head Mtn,", "Council Rocks " & "The 1 Butterfidd Stage Station". A 3-hour fun trip (520)457-3478 The American West is well pre Old Tombstone Tours Horse drawn tours daily. 74 Wagon & coach repairs. We sell tack & harness, all served in Tombstone's original types (520)457-3018 le Town Too Tough To Die" I880's buildings and artifacts fea Tombstone Stage Lines stage coach rides, hayrides, 75 cowboy cookouts 8i overnrghters (520) 457-3234 or 760-0135 tured in numerous Tombstone -^BED S BREAKFASTS- museums. Buford House B & B And Antique Shop 1880 Silver is what brought people to 76 historic adobe bed and breakfast. Reasonable rates, five quiet rooms, this Apache infested land. Life was some private baths (800) 263-6762 (520) 457-3969 hard, but out of it grew a prosperous 77 Priscilla's B & BAcharming 1904 country Victoria) home. C03!m Warm and cozy atmosphere with fuii breakfast (520)457-3844 oasis and the fastest growing city 78 Silver Nugget Bed & Breakfast Tombstone's only between St. Louis and San Francisco B&B with balcony overlooking historic district (520) 457-9223 Tombstone 1880 Adobe Boarding House in 1880. 79 Antique decor, fuii breakfast and private baths (520)457-3716 Boop^ Tombstone merchants take pride Victoria's Bed & Breakfast charming 1880 in keeping their town as authentic as AK. Corr*l 80 adobe home next door to the old courthouse, private baths, centra! heat & air-co (520) 457-3677 .MATT t ART it was 100 years ago, giving the mil MOTELS«^ lions of visitors a real look back into Adobe Motel Clean remodeled rooms, tub, showers, no smoking the wild west as it really was. SI rooms, cd)leTV, phones, major credit cards, pvt. parldn9....(520) 457-2241 Best Western LoolMMit Lodge Tombstone's newest & We invite you to visit an authentic 82 finest luxury motel, cdor TV. pool phones.fSOOl OK CORRAL (520) 457-2223 1880 western town (not a stage-prop Hacienda Huachuca Motel Two blocks from town) featuring well known attrac downtown. Stay where John Wayne stayed. Pool, cable 1V, kitch 83 tions like the QK. Corral, Boothill, enettes. Visa &MC accepted (800)893-2201 (520)457-2201 jfc 6|(?d TOMBSTONE IS EASY TO FIND Larian Motel "Clean, comfortable convenient", walk to his Bird Cage Theatre, Tombstone ONLV 70 MILES 84 toric attractions, non-smoking rooms available. Room phones, free Epitaph, Crystal Palace Saloon and FROM TUCSON TO TOMBSTONE local calls. On HWY 80, downtown Tombstone (5201457-2272 Big Nose Kate's Saloon where X « TUCSON Tombstone Motel All color cable TV, walk to major O WILLCOX attractions and restaurants, individual heat & air-conditioning. Visa, SQC I10I.L1SAY notables like Wyatt Earp, Doc 85 MC, Am. Ex., Disc, cards accepted. A quality motel with clean BENSON attactive rooms at reasonable rates, non smoking rooms available. Holliday, Bat Masterson, Johnny In room phones (520)457-3478 Ringo gathered. Trail Riders Motel Large, dean, quiet rooms. Cable TV, free The merchants of Tombstone 86 morning coffee, fax service movie rentals. 2 Uock Molk to totoric disbict, Visa, MC, SiDiscovff accepted (800) 574-0417 (520)457-3573 hope that this brochure will be help TOMBSTONE CAMPGROUNDS ful when you visit "the town too Stampede R.V. Trailer Park Ovemighters & 87 permanents. Reasonable rates, pull-thrus. showers and laundry.general tough to die." SIERRA VISTA store & community room (520) 45/-3738 88 Trail Riders RV Park Walk to all attractions IVIEXICO "DOUGLAS 1-800-574-0417 Wells Fargo R.V. Park Walk to all attractions. Laundry 89 & shower facilities, cable TV. easy pull thrus. http://si-systems.corrif wellsfargorv. E-mail address:[email protected] (520)457-3966 .
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