BIG NOSE KATE’S SALOON
Saloon — Tombstone, Arizona
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public · est. 1880
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/big-nose-kates-saloon-tombstone-arizona/

Saloon built over the Grand Hotel’s foundations—still haunted, per lore, by its swamper.

Big Nose Kate’s Saloon is a saloon in Tombstone, Arizona, built in 1880. Saloon built over the Grand Hotel’s foundations—still haunted, per lore, by its swamper. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the swamper. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Big Nose Kate's is the Grand Hotel's ghost — the 1880 luxury that burned in '82, the bar that survived in the basement. The guests were the famous — the Earps and Holliday who stayed, the Clantons who registered before the gunfight. The Kate was the namesake — the Doc's woman who ran the sporting house, the deposition that she signed and recanted.
The fire was the transformation — the '82 burn that collapsed it, the arches that survived above. The bar is the original — the long bar that the Earps leaned on, the only one that lived. Big Nose Kate's is the layered — the hotel under the saloon, the gunfight's eve that's in the registers.
The file keeps Big Nose Kate's: the Grand Hotel, the '82 fire, the Kate and Doc, and the original bar.
Big Nose Kate's is the archive's Tombstone file — the saloon that was the hotel.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Big Nose Kate's is the archive's Tombstone file — the OK Corral's eve.
A saloon keeps its register — the file's suggestion being that Kate's hold is the night before: the Clantons who slept there, the fire that changed it, and the bar that the Earps used.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] named ghost legend: Staff report the Swamper—who lived in the basement—still working the bar and cellar. Big Nose Kate’s Saloon, a saloon in Tombstone, Arizona, keeps the story on the menu alongside everything else it serves. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Big Nose Kate’s Saloon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nose_Kate%27s_Saloon)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The building stands on the Grand Hotel site where Doc Holliday’s companion Kate lived. The saloon in Tombstone, Arizona has a documented past — this entry belongs to that layer, not the lore. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Big Nose Kate’s Saloon'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Big Nose Kate’s Saloon — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nose_Kate%27s_Saloon

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