THE SAN DIEGO UNION, California, Sept. 12, 1879  

* Early old West publication
* Tombstone, Arizona growing

The front page has: "Arizona Items" which has reports from Tombstone, noting in part: "The Tombstone section is keeping hip ts reputation in cutting & shooting...Thos. Bridge, who was stabbed on August 10th while playing a game of cards in Clark & Miffin's saloon, died...A shooting scrape took place...in a restaurant...between two men...report says that Wiggins drew a revolver & shot at Cassidy..." and more.
Four pages, irregular at the spine margin due to disbinding, some archival strengthening at the margins, a bit fragile but in nice condition.

background: This 1879 report captures Tombstone during its most volatile "boomtown" phase, serving as a raw dispatch from a frontier settlement that was growing faster than its ability to govern itself. The incidents mentioned—a fatal stabbing over a card game at Clark & Miffin’s and the restaurant shootout between Wiggins and Cassidy—illustrate a society where casual violence was the primary method of dispute resolution. These weren't necessarily the high-stakes political feuds that would later define the Earp-Clanton era, but rather the gritty, everyday friction of miners and gamblers living in close quarters with easy access to weapons. Because this issue predates the founding of the Tombstone Epitaph by eight months, your copy of The San Diego Union acts as a rare primary source, documenting the town's descent into the "reputation for cutting and shooting" that would eventually make it the most infamous zip code in the American West.