"I was the manager of Six Gun City, where we did the gun fighting stuff. It burned down in December so we wanted to come up with an idea for something to do, and I just came up with this," said Foster. "I thought it'd be simple and put a couple of us back to work."

Solonley, a gunfight actress, said that they were all so devastated when Six Gun City burned that they wanted to come together and create something new.

"We were all victims of the fire, so we devised this and just wanted to try something different in town," said Solonley. "We're doing great, and the people are happy with it."

The Ultimate Tombstone Souvenir is a place where tourists, and anyone else interested, can be a part of their own personal Old West gunfight for only $25.

"What we do is we dress them up in 1880s Western costumes and then give them a quick skit," said Foster. "They don't have to have any acting experience or anything. We tell them exactly what to do, and they get to shoot a man over a poker game that goes bad."

Solonley said even though they do instruct the people on what to do they can always act off of their own ideas.

"We do have it pre-planned on what they need to do at the table but if they want to do their own thing that's welcomed, too."

Once the acting is completed and filmed, Foster edits the scene with old film clips, sepia-toned coloring and music. He then burns the mini-movie on a DVD for participants to take home.

"We are kind of like the Old West photos, but we are giving them more," said Foster. "They get to actually kill a man in a gun fight, shoot a real cowboy pistol and take home a DVD to put it on Facebook or wherever."

Bliss, the cowboy actor that gets shot by these tourists, enjoys his new job as the man who dies many deaths.

"My role is a cowboy. The tourists get into playing the poker game with me," said Bliss. "Well, they've been winning all night long so I'm a little upset. They win one last poker hand, throw their cards down and point at me. I draw on them so they stand up and shoot me dead."

Foster said he got the idea for such a creative business because it's something he would be interested in doing.

"I thought it would kind of be the ultimate male fantasy where men could come to Tombstone and be in a gun fight, but the customers have been leaning more towards the kids which I didn't expect," Foster said.

Tourist Peter Therriault, a Vermont native who has been living in Arizona for two years, found The Ultimate Tombstone Souvenir very appealing.

"It was actually really cool," said Therriault, who was visiting
Tombstone with his wife and brother-in-law. "I love the Old West, and it's like the stuff we've seen in Western movies."

Foster, who was in the Army for 11 years and also served in Iraq, made Tombstone his home soon after he was medically retired due to an injury.

"I just stopped to see it after I retired in 2009 and ended up staying," said Foster. "I loved it."

Foster has future plans to possibly expand the company.

"I'd love to have two scenes going at a time on busy days and possibly hire someone else to do the video editing," said Foster. "I'd like to do more and more business."