Holbrook, once declared a town ‘too tough for women and children’, is infused with Native American and a pioneering wild west culture. Its illustrious past includes a famous shoot out that took place in 1887 at Blevins House between cattle rustlers and Commodore Perry Owens, the sheriff who brought order to Holbrook. The Blevins House still stands, as does the historic Bucket of Blood Saloon location, while the bar, once a popular hangout for cowboys and criminals, is now closed, thought the street still bears its name. The centerpiece of the town, the majestic 1898 courthouse, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and houses the official Arizona Information Center and the Navajo County Historical Society's Museum. Route 66 runs right through downtown and is flanked by a plethora of kitschy gift shops. Fancy sleeping in a teepee? You can, at the Wigwam Motel. Holbrook is also known as the gateway to the Petrified Forest National Park where not only can you view a forest of fossilized logs from a million years ago, but you can also see a protected section of Route 66, the Village on the Rio Puerco (Puerco Pueblo for short), a nearly 800-year-old, 100+ room dwelling that was once home to about 200 people and the Agate House which was excavated in the 1930s. If you appreciate weird and unusual stuff, Stewart's Petrified Wood Shop is too good to miss, as if the Painted Desert Indian Center, a gift shop that has a bevy of colorful statues of dinosaurs and is worth a stop.