"It is both shocking and enlightening to learn just how sophisticated Tombstone really was when the Earps, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and Curly Bill strode the boardwalks. Tombstone actually had telephones, ice cream parlors, coffee shops, a bowling alley, and a swimming pool. Wow! It is so contrary to the Hollywood version of the town... but it's absolutely true." ~Bob Boze Bell "Sherry Monahan provides a much-needed corrective with her history/cookbook Taste of Tombstone: A Hearty Helping of History. Monahan's genre-mixing nonfiction is getting a much bigger profile with its recent republication by the University of New Mexico Press. If you want to eat like an Old West gunfighter, Taste of Tombstone gives you a real shot." ~Tucson Weekly
"Hookers were a part of Tombstone, of course...While the town is best known for the fight at the O.K. Corral, Tombstone itself was a cosmopolitan town, a mecca for big spenders and pleasure seekers, outlaws and con men. In an entertaining and fact-laced book, author Sherry Monahan concentrates on the mines that supported the town, producing about $5 million each year during its short boom, and on the town itself, rather than on the famous 30-second fight between the Earps and the Clantons. ~Denver Post
1882 Tombstone City Map |
Taste of Tombstone is an award-winning book that reveals the sophisticated atmosphere unrivaled west of New Orleans and outside San Francisco during the late 1880s. Monahan’s detailed history of the people, restaurants, and hotels describes life in Tombstone, where six-shooters hung on most men’s hips, and miner picks were a common sight. Tombstone’s restaurants varied from simple fare, to exotic creations, and included trendy French cooking, along with fresh oysters. Monahan painstakingly cataloged the essence of how the “West Was Won” in Tombstone by presenting facts about real people and places that shaped the most famous town in Arizona. Included are recipes from the era with actual Tombstone photos. 
Sherry Monahan is an authority on "the city that wouldn't die" and its history. In Tombstone's Treasure, she focuses on the silver mines, one reason for the city's founding, and the saloons, the other reason the city grew so quickly. When the discovery of silver at Tombstone first became known in mid-1880, there were about twenty-six saloons and breweries. By July of the following year, the number had doubled. The most popular saloon games of the time were faro, monte, and poker, with some offering keno, roulette, and twenty-one. 
The Wicked West takes readers on a sinful journey back to frontier days. Gallop your horse right into a saloon (that often really happened!). Learn how our forefathers—and foremothers—enjoyed life's wild little pastimes, such as drinking, smoking, gambling, and of course, prostitution. Your guide for this riotous trip through saloons and bordellos all across the Old West is popular historian Sherry Monahan. She shows you how to mix a mean whiskey cocktail and gives the rules for the high-rolling game of faro. Best of all, she introduces you to a crowd of rough, tough, real-life men and women who tell their unforgettable stories in their own salty words. 60 b/w photographs. 
Captured here in almost 200 vintage images are the lives, trials, adventures, and leisures of some of the Peak's early pioneers and visitors, covering a span of almost 60 years. Along with rare images of the Pike's Peak area from the late 1800s, this collection contains a number of previously unpublished photographs. These include pictures of female pioneers traversing mountains in Cheyenne canons and other vicinities in the 1920s; Colorado Mountain Club members on their hiking trips in the area; pre-World War I memoirs and poems from local residents; and pictures of local prospectors, like Frank Nelson, who remained long after the large gold deposits were discovered. Also featured is the development of the surrounding communities and attractions of the Peak, including Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs, Cripple Creek, Cheyenne Mountain and Canons, Garden of the Gods, Canon City, Royal Gorge, the Broadmoor Hotel, and the Cliff House. 
This Self-Guided Walking Tour allows you to see some of Tombstone’s exciting past as you visit 30 sites where its Victorian residents played and lived.
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