The Tombstone Years 1882-1887

The Private Journal of
George Whitwell Parsons

Parsons Cover

edited and transcribed by

Carl Chafin

Unfortunately this book is now out of print.

Contents


George Parsons and His Famous Diary

 

13
"Met the Notorious Pete Spence" —June 1882
17
"Surprised Several Parties of Girls in Eve’s Costume" —July 1882
19
"Hang the Life. We Want Money." —August 1882
33
"How I Long for a Legitimate Business" — September 1882
43
"Let Her Rip, Georgie Old Boy" —October 1882
55
"The Kid has Gone to Hell" —November 1882
67
"Kaleidoscopic in the Extreme" —December 1882
74
"The Day of Reckoning is at Hand" —January 1883
83
"Wish I Could Never Leave Her Again" —February 1883
89
"Am Afraid She’s Not the Girl I Thought" —March 1883
99
"I Don’t Propose to Venture My Scalp Yet Awhile" —April 1883
109
"It’s a Good Thing to be on Good Terms with the Powerful in the Land" —May 1883
 117
"Frank [Leslie] Gave Me Some Private Information" —June 1883
123
"The Glorious 4th" —July 1883
131
"Ladies Could Vote" —August 1883
137
"For First Time Used Telephone" —September 1883
144
"Stage Driver Filled Him Full, Seeing He was a Tenderfoot" —October 1883
151
"Will Start General Mining Agency with Maurice [Clark]" —November 1883
157
"Terrible News from Bisbee This Morning" —December 1883
161
"Weight, 144 lbs. Height, 5 feet, 8 inches." —January 1884
166
"Hanging in a.m. and Dance in p.m. Good Combination" —February 1884
172
"People have Gone Crazy Over Her" —March 1884
179
"Things Frightfully Quiet" —April 1884
188
"Be in Readiness and Have Weapons in Order" —May 1884
195
"Betting on Flies the Newest Thing" —June 1884
203
"There is No Rest for Bad Men" —July 1884
209
"I Have Great Hopes for the Future" —August 1884
215
"There’ll Be Another Killing Before Long" —September 1884
221
"A Wild-Looking One He is" —October 1884
226
"Mexico is Good Enough for Me Now" —November 1884
233
"So That is the Grand Windup" —December 1884
238
"I Shall Stay with It Though to the Bitter End" — January 1885
244
"I Have a Host of Warm Friends Here" —February 1885
250
"Nice Fellow Socially, But Not a Bit of Business About Him" —March 1885
255
"The Tombstone Public Library Opened Tonight" —April 1885
261
"What a Struggle with Fierce Passion" —May 1885
267
"Human Nature is Indeed Weak and Rascally" —June 1885
273
"We Listen to the Finest Music in the U.S. Army" —July 1885
281
"Am 35 Today and Don’t Feel Very Proud" —August 1885
288
"Goodbye, Old Son. You were Your Own Worst Enemy." —September 1885
294
"I Learned…that More Apaches had Left the Reservation" —October 1885
299
"Nothing But Hard Times Since Coming to Arizona" —November 1885
307
"Adios, Año Viejo. [Farewell, Old Year.]" —December 1885
312
"Was Glad to Find a Dead Skunk" —January 1886
318
"The Only One Who Can Rustle Coin Out of the Faithful" —February 1886
325
"Indians were Made Drunk by C.[harley] Tribolet….He Should Meet His God Quickly." —March 1886
 331
"Good Pictures of Geronimo and His Cutthroats by [C. S.] Fly" —April 1886
337
"The Devil is Foreclosing His Mortgage [on Tombstone]" —May 1886
345
"Lots of Idle Tongues as Well as Hands Now" —June 1886
356
"A Young Cyclone Struck Us…Partially Unroofing Court House" —July 1886
 368
"Looks as Though Grass Would Begin to Grow in Streets" —August 1886
375
"California Only Place for Me Now" —September 1886
382
"Doc G.[oodfellow] has More Cheek Than Any Other Man in Town" —October 1886
389
"Water Froze in My Room Tonight" —November 1886
395
"I am Elected to Spend Christmas in this God-Forsaken Part of the World" —December 1886
 402
"Am Again in California, Old California" —January 1887
412
"Walked Streets Unable to Get a Bed in Any Hotel" —February 1887
420
"Constantly Meeting…Tombstoners" —March 1887
426

Published by our friends at Cochise Classics
Softcover, 5½" x 8½", three illustrations,
complete and unabridged, 432 pages
This book is currently out of print.
 

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