Gunman's Rhapsody

Epilogue

Wyatt was with Josie until he died, age eighty, in Los Angeles, on January 13, 1929… Josie died in 1944… They are buried beside each other in the Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma, California… Doc died of tuberculosis in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on November 8, 1887. He was thirty-five… Johnny Behan died in Tucson, Arizona, on June 7, 1912… Virgil died in October 1905, in Nevada, where he was serving as deputy sheriff of Esmeralda County. He was sixty-two… Warren Earp was shot to death by Johnny Boyett at age forty-five, in Wilcox, Arizona, in July 1900… James Earp died at eighty-four in Los Angeles, on January 25, 1926… Celia Ann Blaylock (Mattie Earp) died July 4, 1888, from an overdose of laudanum, in Pinal, Arizona… Ike Clanton was shot to death by a private detective named J. V. Brighton at Eagle Creek, Arizona, in 1887… Bat Masterson died at his desk in the sports department of the New York Morning Telegraph, October 25, 1921… Alvira Sullivan (Allie Earp) died on November 17, 1947, just short of her 100th birthday… Tombstone remains, shadowed by the Dragoon Mountains, twenty miles east of the San Pedro River… The mines are closed now… The primary business is tourism.