TOMBSTONE Ep. 1 | All That Glitters

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Wyatt Earp earns a reputation as a peace officer in the tough cowtowns of Kansas before his brother Virgil entices him to move west. Doc Holliday begins a promising career as a dentist in Georgia before tuberculosis, and possibly darker troubles, drive him out of the South. Holliday and the Earps converge on a mining camp called Tombstone in the Arizona desert with dreams of making their fortunes. Join Black Barrel+ for early access and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Precion immigrant Frederick Brunkow was prospecting along the banks of the San Pedro River in
0:14.7	southeastern Arizona when he found some promising signs that silver or might be in the area.
0:20.8	He had been well-schooled in mining and geology in Europe and had immigrated to the United States
0:25.6	in 1848.
0:27.7	He used his expertise to get a job with the Sonora Exploring in Mining Company in early
0:31.9	1856 and soon found himself in Tucson, Arizona.
0:37.2	When he identified a potential spot for a silver mine along the San Pedro, he quickly
0:41.9	formed the St. Louis Mining Company with a pair of brothers, James and William Williams,
0:47.2	and they filed a claim on the land.
0:49.8	Then a fourth man joined the team, JC Moss, and they began to build their mining operation.
0:55.6	A small community soon sprang up around their mine and they hired some laborers from
1:00.0	the Mexican province of Sonora to help get the ore out of the ground.
1:04.6	The wives and children of the workers populated the tiny hamlet, but what began as an encouraging
1:09.3	venture turned dark and brutal almost overnight.
1:13.0	On January 23rd, 1860, the Sonoran workers took over the mine.
1:18.6	They massacred Frederick Brunkow, James Williams, and JC Moss.
1:23.4	They plundered the mine and fled back to Mexico.
1:26.6	William Williams was out of town at the time and he was the only founder who escaped the slaughter.
1:32.4	Mining efforts in southern Arizona had bloody origins and things would only get worse.
1:45.9	From BlackBeryl Media, welcome to season 2 of the Legends of the Old West Podcast.
1:50.8	I'm your host Chris Wimmer and this is the first episode of a five-part series on Tombstone
1:56.0	and the gunfight at the OK Corral.
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