The Tombstone Epitaph has been publishing since May 1, 1880, making it one of the oldest continuously operating newspapers in Arizona. The original office on Fifth Street is now a small museum where you can see the printing press used to set the type for the O.K. Corral coverage and browse reproductions of historic front pages. The paper itself is still published monthly, covering Old West history and culture.
The museum is modest — a single room — but worth stepping into for the context it provides. The original Epitaph reporting on the gunfight, the Earp trials, and the town's eventual decline is the closest thing to a contemporary account of what Tombstone was actually like in its heyday.