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A quiet scene on 5th and Allen Streets in Tombstone, Arizona, 1881, these streets lit up with danger in October, when the outlaw Cowboys faced off against the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday in the famous Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral.
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Kim Winthrop Hoffman For an excellent and concise history of the gunfight near the OK Corral look no further than Bob Boze Bell's Illustrated Life of Wyatt Earp. His one on Doc Holliday is also excellent. The conflict between the Earps and the Cowboys was not black and whi...See More
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Shawn Swart It makes you think. Did the Earp faction trump up charges to make the so called cowboy faction seem to be lawless to hide the possibility they DID murder 3 men on the streets of Tombstone. I never considered the McLaury brothers outlaws, but the Earps and Holliday were certainly shady.
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Glenn Chartrand Just cowards, damn cowards ... This says it all, “We must express our absolute horror at the cold-blooded massacre of women and children—ninety women and fifty young children—perpetrated by the United States soldiers in Montana recently.”.
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Gary Parker Can you imagine people riding on this today? They would have to have seat belts, hand rails, escalators to get up there, and then would sue because of the dust and the horse apples, and the smell of horses.............
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Sue Chapman Butcher This is something that was not in my history books. Love reading about the everyday people who made this country interesting. This is another great story. Thank you
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Well any criminal that gets caught isn't a very good criminal, so I'd say she made the right called when she got out of prison.
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Al Jones The British dumped Colt's Army contract for the Beaumont-Adams (British-made) double action revolver after using both in the Crimean War in the 1850's. Starr's double action revolvers were the third most purchased ones for the Federal Army during the ...See More
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