1844, October 24 – On October 24, 1844 Richard Franklin Brown and Elizabeth Smith Brown became the proud parents of a son, Rollin, at Rushville, Indiana.  Rollin served with the 124th Infantry Indiana Regulars for two years during the Civil War and eventually followed his father’s footsteps into the newspaper business.  While working as a typesetter in San Francisco, Rollin was contacted by Arizona newspaperman and publisher of the Arizona Citizen, John Wasson, about working in Arizona.  Rollin accepted and arrived in Tucson on March 6, 1873.  By 1875, and despite having little formal schooling, Rollin became a partner in the business with Wasson.  Having vacated his position as Indian Agent in July 1877, John Clum went into the newspaper business purchasing the Arizona Citizen from Wasson on October 23, 1877.  Having a lot of ambition but no experience at running a newspaper, Clum was somewhat at a loss.  It was Rollin Brown who educated future Tombstone Epitaph founder, John Clum, on the vagaries and intricacies of operating a newspaper on the western frontier.

1874, October 16 – Friday, October 16, 1874, was payday at the San Carlos Apache reservation, and also the day to pay reservation suppliers and vendors.  Records indicate that Indian Agent John Clum was paid $375 for his past month’s work.  San Carlos interpreter Marijildo Grigalvo took home a paycheck of $144.46 for fifty-two days of work and Apache Policeman, Eskiminzin was paid $8.50 for about two weeks of work.  Mercantilist Lord and Williams, a major supplier to the reservation was paid $2.00 for 100 envelopes, .50 for a bottle of ink, $30.00 for one saddle and $6.50 for a bridle.

1880, October – Dreamers and schemers, businessmen and conmen continued to pour into southeast Arizona seeking sin and silver.  By October, physician Dr. George Goodfellow was seeing patients at his new office on the upper floor of the Vickers Building on Tombstone’s Fremont Street.  Dr. Goodfellow later became well-known for his ability to successfully treat abdominal wounds - a leading cause of death in the west.

1881, October 5 – Since the inauguration in the summer of 1874 of the Apache Police at John Clum’s San Carlos Apache reservation, until early September 1881, the Apache population in Arizona Territory had remained relatively quiet and docile with few exceptions.  But with Clum’s departure on July 1, 1877, the Apaches had been subjected to a series of uncaring and inept management and in September 1881, ran off the reservation and began terrorizing the Territory.  Unsatisfied with the inability of the U.S. Army to subdue the marauding Indians, on October 5, 1881, Tombstone mayor John Clum along with Sheriff Johnny Behan, Virgil Earp, George Parsons, and others formed a posse to track down the miscreants.  For two days, the posse of 17 Tombstoners tracked the Indians through what diarist George Parsons described as one of the worst rains storms ever seen in the Territory. 

1881, October 18 – Contrary to popular belief, entertainment in Tombstone consisted of more than drinking, gambling, and shooting-up the town.  On the evening of Tuesday, October 18, 1881, a Musical and Literary Entertainment gala was held at the Mining Exchange Hall (formerly Gird’s Hall) on Fremont Street.  Some events of this type were open to all-comers.  Some were open only to that club’s members due simply to the small size of the event hall.