Photo: tifoultoute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio walk through the silver-boom town of Tombstone. It begins at the Cochise County Courthouse of 1882, now a state park museum, then visits the Rose Tree, a Banksia rose planted in 1885 from a Scottish cutting, and the Good Enough Mine, claimed by Ed Schieffelin in 1878 and dug by hand into the limestone beneath the town. Along Allen Street, whose boardwalk dates from 1975, it covers the Grand Hotel's surviving arches, the Crystal Palace, the Oriental Saloon, the Tombstone Epitaph office and the Bird Cage Theatre of 1881, with its curtained balcony boxes and more than 140 bullet holes. The last part takes in Schieffelin Hall's thick adobe walls, City Hall and its fire-engine arch, the O.K. Corral and the lot on Fremont Street where the gunfight of October 26, 1881 lasted about thirty seconds, then St. Paul's Episcopal Church of 1882 and Boothill Graveyard, the town's first cemetery.
15 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 25 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 4 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Tombstone Courthouse, The Rose Tree, Good Enough Mine.
Allen Street, Grand Hotel Site, Crystal Palace, Oriental Saloon Site, Tombstone Epitaph Office, Bird Cage Theatre.
Schieffelin Hall, Tombstone City Hall, O.K. Corral, Gunfight Site on Fremont Street, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Boothill Graveyard.
The red-brick Cochise County Courthouse of 1882, with courtrooms, a jail and a reproduction gallows in its courtyard, now a museum.
Ed Schieffelin's 1878 silver claim, dug by hand about 100 feet into the limestone beneath the town and reopened for mine tours.
The saloon rebuilt in 1882 with a goldfish pond and mahogany bar, later a theater, a bus depot and the office of Virgil Earp.
A variety theatre and saloon of 1881 that survived the fires, with curtained boxes on its balcony and more than 140 bullet holes.
The lot where the Earps and Doc Holliday faced the Cowboys on October 26, 1881, in a fight that lasted about thirty seconds.
The town cemetery from 1879, with the Lester Moore marker and the common grave of Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 15 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Tombstone — Allen Street, the Courthouse and Boothill, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including Tombstone Courthouse, Crystal Palace, Bird Cage Theatre, Schieffelin Hall and Tombstone City Hall. That is about 19 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.