"Buckskin" Frank Leslie & Luke Short

Two of Tombstone's deadlier reputations were made on this ground. In February 1881, the gambler Luke Short shot and killed Charlie Storms after a quarrel at the gaming tables. Twenty months later, "Buckskin Frank" Leslie killed Billy Claiborne — a hanger-on of the cowboy faction that had lost the O.K. Corral fight the year before. Neither killing became as famous as the Earp-Clanton gunfight, but together they measure how quickly an argument in a silver boomtown could end at the wrong end of a pistol.

What the plaque says

"Buckskin" Frank Leslie and Luke Short. , "Buckskin" Frank Leslie killed Billy Claiborne here on November 14th, 1882., Luke Short killed Charlie Storms here on February 25th, 1881.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tombstone — steps away
  The silver strike named for a death that never came
• Bisbee — 21 mi
  Queen of the Copper Camps — and the deportation it tried to forget

More markers nearby

• Bird Cage Theatre — steps away
• Brown's Hotel and Hafford's Saloon — steps away
• Home & Office of Wm. Herring — steps away
• Schieffelin Hall — steps away