Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Ride 2014 Photos
2014 Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Riders
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- “Meet & Greet” at the historic Tucson Train Depot
- Socializing
- White Tablecloths of course
- Doc & Wyatt in bronze
- We ate just steps away from where Wyatt killed Stillwell
- Romantic dinner for everyone
- Guest of Honor: author Larry McMurtry
- Mr & Mrs. McMurtry with the hosts
- We got ours autographed!
- Historic train at depot
- The Boys from Berlin
- Vendetta Riders
- Welcome to Tombstone
- Allen Street – Tombstone
- Allen Street boardwalk
- ok!!
- We made it Wyatt
- Yeah – we be bad!
- A private walking tour by our historian
- Bird Cage Theatre
- The O.K. Corral
- What really happened here
- A ghostly image of Old Man Clanton
- Murdered on the streets of Tombstone
- “I ain’t buying it!”
- “Forget the tour… I need money for next year’s ride”
- The Longhorn Restaurant
- Crystal Palace Saloon
- Drink up boys!
- Sun sets on our 1st day
- From around the world they came
- Let’s mount!!
- Curly Bill / Red Shirt Day
- A Red Sash Cowboy
- To the Whetstone Mtns
- A fantastic day to ride
- Here Wyatt killed Curly Bill
- Evidence of the line shack
- The grass was waist high
- Our historian, with map, explains the fight
- The Red Sash Gang listens intently
- Heading back home
- Wide open spaces
- Next morning
- Afgan Jack – age 82 – his first horseback ride
- The Dragoon Mtns
- Home of the Apache
- and rattlesnakes too
- An Apache lurks around every corner
- Almost like Disneyland – but real
- Keep your eyes peeled
- I’m ready for some action
- Our Native American historian
- Vendetta Riders listen
- The Berlin Boys are at it again!
- In the desert, white man sees starvation, Apache sees buffet
- Explaining the petroglyphs
- This one means white man lies
- I think he has us surrounded
- We finally catch a Cowboy
- Yep – we hanged him
- And celebrated
- Back home
- Back home
- Sun sets on our 3rd day
- Sunsets in Arizona are awesome
- Thus so many photos
- Last one
- 4th day we ride through Tombstone
- It’s like a private parade
- Riding down the deadliest street in the Old West
- This seems to be a favorite ride
- Who gets to do this stuff?
- Riding by the Bird Cage
- Eddie won a pair of leather cuffs
- Custom-made by Geno DeAmboise of Tombstone
- Some men were born to have their photo taken
- In the afternoon: we ride to historic Fairback
- Bill makes his point: he is the center of the universe
- Surrounding country is beautiful
- No flat desert here
- Lush greenery everywhere
- We ride the Chiricahua Mts
- Deep we go…
- Water for our horses
- Love folks just love their horses
- The Chiricahua Mtns.
- A manmade dam
- Lunch break
- “Where did you say we put the horses?”
- Staking their claim
- Watch out behind you!!
- The Vendetta Riders
- Father and son came to bond
- The smile on her face tells the tale
- His 2nd Vendetta Ride and he’s back next year too.
- Bill will do anything to get his photo taken
- Johnny Ringo’s gravesite
- As Doc said: “I’m your Huckleberry.”
- The Berlin Boys again!!
- We all walked over Johnny Ringo’s gravesite
- Cool weather approaches
- “Boys, I say we get a rope…”
- “I’m sorry… I’m happily married.”
- Last meal – we gained weight on this vacation
- Everyone received recognition
- “See ya next year… or else!”