Tombstone, Arizona, is the town too tough to die. Part history and part Halloween, it’s where you can watch the Gunfight at OK Corral, drink a whiskey or intolerable water, walk around the graves at Boothill Cemetery where a cowboy got hanged by mistake, and see ghosts in a mirror at the Bird Cage Saloon. In fact, there are ghosts everywhere in Tombstone.

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Tucson Rodeo comes only once a year but it’s the biggest time of the year. Schools and businesses close, so everybody can cowboy up and go down to the arena.

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Cowboys sing about trusting your compadres as if your life depends on it because it does. They sing about how being dog tired at the end of the day makes you appreciate things other people look down on — like a mess of beans seasoned with coffee and chili peppers, a little whiskey and your bunk under the stars. They sing about a life led outdoors under the sun, in the rain and snow, under a sky too big to understand.

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