In his Wikipedia entry, and in the Don Chaput biography (Dr. Goodfellow Physician to the Gunfighters, Scholar, and Bon Vivant. Westernlore Press 1996.), George Goodfellow is credited with having performed, in July 1881, possibly the first ever gunshot wound ‘laparotomy’ … Read More
Go to the first part of this blog > Day 3 Friday Aug 29th (continued) Goodfellow Two hours at the Arizona Historical Society library in Tucson, where I was able to have a good look at what there exists of ‘Goodfellow … Read More
Day 3 Friday Aug 29th Tucson. Medical matters. “He who desires to practice surgery must go to war” Hippocrates University of Arizona Medical Center, and an interview with trauma surgeon Dr Peter Rhee. I blush to confess my failure to realise how much of … Read More
Day 2 Thursday Aug 28th (continued) Tombstone – three interviews Included in the price of the Gunfight ticket you get a free copy of a modified facsimile of the Tombstone Epitaph‘s report on the fight, to be collected from the newspaper … Read More
Day Two Thursday Aug 28th (continued) Tombstone – the Town Tombstone today, with a population of about 1,400, is for the tourists and a very cleaned up version of the bustling, hastily improvised silver boom-town of the early 1880s, when … Read More
Day 2 Thursday Aug 28th. Tucson to Tombstone: The Prologue and first encounters “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” … Read More
A RECORD (IN 6 PARTS) OF AN INTENSIVE AND EXCITING FOUR DAYS OF RESEARCH, STOLEN FROM A FAMILY HOLIDAY AND SPENT IN PHOENIX, TUCSON AND TOMBSTONE ARIZONA. Day 1 Wednesday Aug 27th 2014. Travel: Grand Canyon to Flagstaff AZ … Read More