Day 59 - Old Tucson

The show started at 10:30 AM. This was the scene: We (the spectators) sat by the town square facing a Wild West City. We were looking at a hotel with a saloon, a barbershop, and the Sheriff's office with the adjacent jail. Real live actors presented a wild-west scene.

Two men stepped out of the saloon, arguing, and engaged in a gunfight. One of them bit the dust and was grabbed by his boots and dragged away quickly by the saloon keeper. Then the Sheriff arrived on the scene and hung a gallows rope around the neck of the bandit-shooter. But his friends rushed into town on horseback to save him. Then a gunslinger joined the Sheriff, and a long shoot-out began. One bandit after another was killed. One somersaulted from a second-floor window and fell into the street dust. Another one was shot from the roof, grabbed his chest, fell onto an awning, rolled over, and fell into the street. There were lots of motionless bodies lying around.

In the end, the Sheriff and Gunslinger were wounded but still standing! We had fun watching this spectacle. The whole thing was quite entertaining and well-acted.

This concludes our journey through North America. The next chapter will cover Mexico. Stay tuned .....Read more