Hats off to the land owner for setting it up so people can visit the site. Great Video

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

We agree!

That is very, very nice of the owners of the property to let people come on to property and check things out.I commend them.I appreciate people like that

"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave."

@cheekseparator

9 ай бұрын

"you're no daisy"

@donthomas4793

6 күн бұрын

Fights not with you holiday.

It is always nice to talk with the old folks that know the history. I have traveled around the that area a good bit. Camped up Turkey Creek many times. Just a gorgeous part of Arizona.

I'd love to see Ringo's body exhumed. Modern forensics could tell us things like the angle of the bullet, whether there was evidence of powder burns on the skull, and possible other details. I personally think he committed suicide, Sure, he'd had a beef with Buckskin Frank, but for Leslie even to find Ringo at this remote location seems a stretch. The last person known to have seen Ringo alive was Deputy Billy Breckinridge, who said the man was extremely drunk. Ringo had talked about suicide, and the fact was that his world was gone. His friends Curly Bill, the McLaury Brothers, and Billy Clanton were all dead, his sisters had rejected him, and he may have felt he had no reason to go on. I think all the chain link fencing is new. When I was up there a few years ago, it seems it was a lot more open. Excellent video!

Talking to Gary was pure GOLD! WOW, thanks so much for this rare interview!

I didn't realize what a beautiful place that was before. Kinda peaceful. Thanks Dave!

Loved watching this again 👍🪶🌵

Awesome, thank you, very cool.

Fascinating! I've always heard stories about Ringo's grave site ever since I was a kid. This episode is definitely going in my Library. Thanks Guys.

Great video, Thanks for posting it. I’m going to visit his gravesite someday & pay my respects to him.

Thanks again Dave for yet another great video and thank you Gary for allowing people to come out and see this historical site.

Awesome story Dave and Gary, thanks so much for this piece of history👌🤠🇺🇸

Great episode Dave!! Amazing piece of history. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

That is such a breathtaking slice of Heaven here in southern AZ. I believe Gary’s wife’s family originally homesteaded that ranch. They have a series of ponds stocked with fish that are filled by Turkey Creek adding to the inherent beauty. Their daughter Tobilynn Smith was a friend of mine and she passed away much too young in August of 2022 and I believe she is buried there in the family cemetery. Tobilynn was going to give me a guided tour of all the history including the original house where Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday once stayed over. Unfortunately I never got the chance to go see it all. Oh the stories that ranch could tell….

@Q2-iswatching

28 күн бұрын

That would have been so cool if you could have gotten with her and done that that would have been a good time

Its amazing that the tree is still there almost 142 years later..❤

Well done, thanks for sharing. The land owner is very cool for sharing with the public, I hope future vistors are as respectful as you were.

i want to go now... owners are fine folks for letting people to come.. and hats off to all the respectful people that visit..

Rest in peace Johnny. You are not forgotten.

Awesome Video !!!! He was also born in my home state of Indiana !!!

Thank you, it’s really nice

Thanks for video

Beautiful c7

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

8 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@user-wd3kr6ih9y

8 күн бұрын

@@Desert.Sky.Adventures you're welcome

Incredible that tree still stands or better yet, surprised it's not bigger than that after 140 plus years.

@billierenfro705

14 күн бұрын

I was thinking the same thing……I’m assuming the desert conditions keeps it from growing at a rapid pace but just a guess

I love your Tombstone videos but I think this is my favorite video yet!! Thank you so much for continuing to do these awesome videos that share the amazing history of southern Arizona!

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

Amazing

Absolutely outstanding...thank you and Scott for sharing this amazing place that is still one of history's moments that is talked about and so many endless questions...wow💯💥🏜👍

Cool video, enjoyed it!!

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

I like this head stone. We put a friend in the ground and got a big rock for his headstone. We dug his grave and covered him up. May he rest in peace.

Fascinating stuff. Maybe it’s better we don’t know, leaves the imagination open.

Very interesting. Yes we shall never know. Earp and Holliday were suppose to be in Colorado when it happened. Thanks a lot for this video.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Great video. I flew out with my son to the Tombstone film's 30th anniversary this past June and drove straight to Johnny Ringo's gravesite from Tuscon airport. Long journey but well worth it. It will always remain a mystery as to how he died.

Fantastic Vid and info. Huge part of Az. history. Thank you both!

Great video and you got a special tour. On the other side of the mountain is the ghost town and cemetery of PARADISE. The printing press used to make the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper and still on display inside is reported to have been moved to Tombstone from there where it was used first. Some people might still live there. I was at the little country post office in PORTAL years back when a family from PARADISE came down on their weekly trip to pick up their mail.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

I’ve been wanting to go check out Gayleyville but I don’t think there is anything left to see.

How cool to meet the owner!!!

Great video…loads of history on Gary’s land! No I wanna research Johnny Ringo (I’ve heard the name many times, but don’t know anything about him)!

another awesome video!!

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the visit!

They should use some kind of a machine that sends vibrations into the ground to prove there really is a skeleton under those rocks. Ringo’s body could’ve been moved to some other place and buried. They should use some kind of seismic tool to prove that there is actually a skeleton there.

I read that when Ringo's body was found it was already blackened and in a state of decomposition. Therefore it made sense to bury his corpse right where it was found.

Land owner has real good memory

I heard old man Clanton’s death sight isn’t too far from my home town of Morenci AZ, up the way from mule creek.

Ringo was on a four day binder drinking every moment he was awake, people who knew him said he was depressed, accounts i have heard was he wasnt wearing a hat and had a bullet hole in his temple exiting above the left temple, as well as his gun in hand. Im convinced he killed himself and Leslie taking credit.

Hi, I’m Johnny Ringo” I’m the man in camo and flesh tones and the fashion police are likeHell Hounds on my trail.”

Thanks Dave for history where Johnny Ringo grave, thanks for Mr Graham letting people visit on his land. I agree please be respectful don’t leave trash why ? If people keep doing that, maybe they won’t anymore that would be shame. Hard to believe Ringo’s exact grave. Thanks

Fascinating, thank you

His boots were found on his horse. He was probably trying to walk and find his horse and just said screw it and ended it.

Imagine back in those days riding your horse in the middle of nowhere and see a post office

I'll be your huckleberry

What's in a date...I joined the U.S Navy on July 13th 1982 after witnessed a murder...strange

Any chance you'll try and visit the site of Galeyville.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

I’d like to but I hear there is literally nothing left. Not even foundations.

@TheSpaghetti64

9 ай бұрын

@@Desert.Sky.Adventures You'd have to take the jeep as the road is pretty rutted. Their are mine openings on the hillsides so you'll know when you are there. Like you said there are few if any foundations and it's on private land.

@dks13827

9 ай бұрын

Any water in the creek?

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

Didn’t look like it.

Way cool video your friend is correct where ringo was found the branch on the left fell within the last ten years. I think his horse got away from him. Many thanks to the sanders now grahm family to allow visitors. His body was bloated been there a couple of days...one mans opinion p.s. would never see stuff like this, thanks for the memories. ❤tombstone a.t

He is probably directly under the rocks because the ground was probably really hard in that part of the country

I just watched a TV show called tombstone and according to the show, a judge shot and killed him an Ringo was unarmed.

Where is turkey creek exactly?

I was thinking that maybe Wyatt Earp the movie was a more accurate portrayal of Wyatt Earp and that wide or maybe told more of the truth about what happened but unless they just added Johnny Ringo in that final scene and they really was a shootout like that or it’s just simply a lie altogether Which is disappointing. Someone needs to make a movie like the movie, White Earp that is to the best of our ability from the best historical records. Exactly what happened with wider… In this mystery of Johnny Ringo, can it actually be confirmed that Doc Holliday and/or Wyatt Earp were actually in Colorado for the court date because we know they missed lots of court dates and did not show up for lots of hearings, especially in early years… If it can’t be proven that they were actually in Colorado, they could’ve made their way back down and killed all the Cowboys and picked them off one at a time like the movie suggest And if I’m not mistaken, a lot of these Cowboys were picked off one at a time throughout the years, but again, I don’t know that, I would have to do historical research to confirm that… You make a lot of enemies when you have no morals, so that guy could have just killed him because he was upset about the gambling thing… And I think it would’ve been hard for Wyatt to show up in that town without anybody knowing he was there. Also, that guy might’ve embarrassed him by rearranging his clothes, or someone also might have robbed him…

I guess no one has done ground pentertraiting radar to see if a grave is beneath those stones. It just seems so many old west folks have been dug up or something. This is private property so maybe not. Honestly I think I will beleive whats shown in this video, RIP Johnny Ringo

Good report…

Very interesting.I will have to visit the site when I go to Tombstone.Thanks!

One shot in the temple? Doesn't sound like a shot fired in a dispute.

What an interesting man Mr Gary Graham seems to be Too bad you didnt get into a better conversation with him. I bet he has some history to tell

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

2 ай бұрын

Sorry it didn’t meet your standards. You can always drive out there and talk to him yourself.

I wonder why he just wasn't moved to a Tombstone cemy?

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

17 күн бұрын

Back in those days it took 2 days at least to get to Tombstone. Long way to carry a body. And there’s no money in it.

Is that the Wyatt Earp ‘Ok Corral’ performer?

@Kenmurrillo1229

9 ай бұрын

Yes seems like a nice fella 👍

So apparently one of two things, he committed suicide or that guy killed him. I think he was killed by that guy…

I think Ringo killed himfelf, by the Popeye thesis ( enough is enough, and enough is too much)--Bob Bailey in Maine

Is there a way to send the Grahams a few bucks ($$$) to help them keep this site maintained? I plan to go there at the end of the year, but they deserve a way to afford to keep it going.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

There’s a donation box at the site.

@scottchenoweth4937

9 ай бұрын

@@Desert.Sky.Adventures Thank you.

I always thought Doc holiday killed Johnny Ringo?

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

3 күн бұрын

Only in the movie Tombstone.

U mean Doc Holliday didn't kill Ringo???😊

I guess people gave verified that Ringo is really under that pile of rocks?

Archeologists need to dig the site. But if there wasn’t nothing there why would the land owner let people in for free. They have nothing to gain. It’s a mystery that hopefully will be solved one day!

@1949rangerrick

9 ай бұрын

He was probably not buried in any kind of box, just placed in the ground. Highly unlikely there would be anything left to find. Nature takes its course. Still a cool place to visit, been there several times.

My understanding was Ringo was drunk...which would explain some/most of the questions. He would not be thinking rationally.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

7 ай бұрын

Nobody knows for sure.

We know what happened, it’s in the movie Tombstone…

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

5 ай бұрын

What happened in the movie tombstone is 100% what did not happen.

Wonder why they didn't pry bullet from tree , probably wouldn't have known ballistics of bullet but caliber size should have been known? Would have gave a clue on gun that killed him? I bet todays technology could have told exact ballistics of bullet and at what distance it entered his body by the depth it went into tree, couldn't have been very deep buried into tree considering every thing was pretty much black powder!

Wonder if he was buried with his guns?

His horse wasnt found with him. The rags was on his feet becausr his boots were on the horse becausrle he was passed out dyunk. He wrnt looking for his horse hence the rags on his feet.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

7 ай бұрын

Except nobody can prove that as nobody knows for sure.

Where is Ringo's gun?

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

I could be mistaken…it’s been several months since I went in to the tombstone gun fighter museum, but I believe he has it there.

When I was first there, the stones on the grave were white but people kept stealing them as souvenirs! B-T-W, Wyatt Earp killed Ringo with his .45-60 Remington rifle.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

He must have had the worlds fastest horse.

@nutek1026

9 ай бұрын

Wyatt and Doc, who were staying in Colorado at this time, took trains, stagecoaches, and horses to make their way back to Arizona. They met their friends at a spot near Hooker’s Ranch. A short time later they all rode toward Galeyville and then tracked down Ringo who was camped up in Morse Canyon near Turkey Creek. It was part of his vendetta for Ringo’s involvement in the murder of Morgan

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

Where does this info come from? Wyatt was reportedly seen in Sacramento a few days before based on what I read. Gary confirmed it as well.

@nutek1026

9 ай бұрын

It is from a monograph “The United States of America v The Cowboys” by Don Taylor, Old West Research & Publishing, 2006. Remember that at this time, Wyatt was still a U.S. Deputy Marshal for Southern Arizona Territory, appointed by and helped by U.S. Marshal Crawley Dake.

Nice that someone would put up the cost of a chain linked fence.

I believe it was suicide. His life was HARD.

You're a daisy if you do

If the horses could talk we would know every history....

I love tombstone movie......

Why does the movie show Doc Holliday killing Ringo

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

It made for a good ending.

@randymarkel4952

9 ай бұрын

Hollywood never gets anything historically right, they always go for BS story lines.

How about he committed suicide when confronted by Frank.

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

Could be.

Sorry guys I watch to many westerns....lol 😅

Doc Holiday sucided him.

Five miles long

Clueless…

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

6 ай бұрын

You are? Well hopefully you learned something.

Supposedly his horse ran away from him and it was really hot out and he was drunk. Idk if it was suicide. Both sides make interesting arguments

Maybe he got cornered he reached the end of the road didn’t want anybody else to take him out

Very cool video l love old western history and l love the history of Johnny ringo and his grave site is very cool . 👍👏🏜

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Look dear, it's Johnny Ringo. You know who he reminds me of ?....me, yes I'm sure of it...

Wtf I thought doc holiday did it

@Desert.Sky.Adventures

8 ай бұрын

Only in the movie.

it was def suicide

Doc killed his ass