Helldorado

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  • Helldorado is a nickname for the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona in the violent silver-mining days of the early 1880's. The reference is to a newspaper letter of the period from a miner complaining that many miners had come to Tombstone hoping to find Eldorado, but had instead found Helldorado.
  • Helldorado (novel) is a 1928 book about this era by former Cochice Country sheriff's deputy Billy Breakenridge.
  • Helldorado (movie) is a 1935 Western film inspired in part by Breakenridge's book.
  • "Helldorado (album)" is the eighth album by W.A.S.P., released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).