The only legalized gambling venue in the area for many years, Sunland Park, was opened in 1959 as a Thoroughbred racing track. The place today has over 700 slot machines in play. The casino is open 112 hours a week and offers many electronic table games, including roulette, blackjack, and Texas Hold 'Em.

The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a thirty-second gunfight between lawmen led by Virgil Earp and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that occurred at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona, United States.