When history conspires with geography

"As Arizona folklorist Bob Boze Bell has remarked, the 22 odd square miles which encompass Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where Billy the Kid was killed, El Paso, Texas, and Tombstone, Arizona, is America's Bermuda Triangle, a spawning ground of myth. Cochise, Geronimo, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, the Earps, Doc Holliday, Big-Nosed Kate, the Clantons, the McLaurys, Johnny Ringo, Tom Horn, Texas John Slaughter, John Wesley Harding, and later, Pancho Villa, all earned immortality in this region. Has any other area of the United States produced so much folklore in so small a space?"

-- from Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends, by Allen Barra