The Tombstone Epitaph, 26 April 1890, page 4 — 'A Strange Winged Monster Discovered and Killed on the Huachuca Desert'
- Origin
- County library microfilm collection, Arizona
- Dated
- 26 April 1890
- Extent
- 1 pages
- Status
- accepted
- Redactions
- None. The bracketed notes are ours and are marked as ours.
Chain of custody
Read by our correspondent on the reader at the county library on 12 February 2026, from the library's own reel, and photographed off the screen with the librarian's permission. No appointment and no fee. The reel is on open shelf. We publish our frame, the reel number and the frame number so any reader can wind to the same place and check us.
Held by: Reel remains with the library; They Buried holds the frame photograph and the reel and frame numbers
Excerpt
[Four columns. Two ranchers; a winged creature; a stated wingspan; the manner of its killing; the intention to bring it to town.] [There is no photograph on this page. There is no reference anywhere in the four columns to a camera, a photographer, a plate, an engraving, or an image of any kind. They Buried has read every line twice.]
Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.
Editor's note
Accepted as an authentic 1890 newspaper page and as nothing else. It is evidence of what the Epitaph printed, not of what happened in the desert. It is filed here chiefly for what it does not contain, which is the whole of our story and which any reader can verify for the price of a bus fare.