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    Tombstone is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by prospector Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory...
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  • reunites with his brothers Virgil and Morgan in Tucson, Arizona, where they venture on toward Tombstone to settle down. There they encounter Wyatt's long-time...
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    is a small graveyard of at least 250 interments located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. Also known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was...
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    Kansas, Tombstone, Arizona, and Deadwood, South Dakota. The most notable use of the name "Boot Hill" is at the Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone, Arizona. 31°43′11...
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    Johnny Ringo (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    loosely associated with the Cochise County Cowboys in frontier boomtown Tombstone, Arizona Territory. He took part in the Mason County War in Texas during which...
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    Josephine Earp (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    frontier boom town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona. Josephine was born in...
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    $821,000 in 2023) was en route from the boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory to Benson, Arizona, the nearest freight terminal. Bob Paul, who had run...
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    Doc Holliday (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    surrounding and his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He developed a reputation as having killed more than a dozen men...
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    Buckskin Frank Leslie (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    was known for his fringed buckskin jacket. He became well-known in Tombstone, Arizona, for killing two men in self-defense. He married the widow of one...
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    and horse corral from 1879 to about 1888 in the mining boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in the southwestern United States near the border with...
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    Morgan Earp (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    March 18, 1882) was an American sheriff and lawman. He served as Tombstone, Arizona's Special Policeman when he helped his brothers Virgil and Wyatt, as...
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    Virgil Earp (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905) was both deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone, Arizona, City Marshal when he led his younger brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and...
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    rode out of Arizona Territory, headed for New Mexico Territory. After a long-simmering feud and increasing animosity and threats, Tombstone town Marshal...
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    Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (category Tombstone, Arizona)
    subject of books and films into the 21st century. Taking place in the Tombstone, Arizona Territory, the battle has become one archetype of the American Old...
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    Wyatt Earp (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Earp was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which...
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    Tom McLaury (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    American outlaw. He and his brother Frank owned a ranch outside Tombstone, Arizona, Arizona Territory during the 1880s. He was a member of a group of outlaws...
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    Tombstone Historic District is a historic district in Tombstone, Arizona that is significant for its association with the struggle between lawlessness...
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    known being the 1870s stampede to the silver bonanzas of Tombstone, Arizona, in southeast Arizona, also known for its legendary outlaws and lawmen. By the...
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    Billy Clanton (category People from Cochise County, Arizona)
    County, Arizona Territory. He, along with his father Newman Clanton and brother Ike Clanton, worked a ranch near the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory...
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    produced by Ziv Television. This program took place in the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, one of the Old West's most notorious towns and the site...
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    The Tombstone Epitaph is a Tombstone, Arizona, monthly publication that covers the history and culture of the Old West. Founded in January 1880 (with...
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    James Earp (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    Being Another Chapter in the Earp–Clanton Tragedy". The Tombstone Epitaph. Tombstone, Arizona. March 27, 1882. p. 4. Archived from the original on October...
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    John Clum (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    the first mayor of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, after its incorporation in 1881. He also founded the still-operating The Tombstone Epitaph on May 1, 1880...
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  • Big Nose Kate (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    their way to the Arizona Territory. Virgil Earp had already been in Prescott, Arizona, and persuaded his brothers to move to Tombstone. Holliday was making...
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    Billy Breakenridge (category People from Cochise County, Arizona)
    Breakenridge went south to Cochise County and the growing mining town of Tombstone. He served as a deputy sheriff under Cochise County Sheriff Behan during...
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  • Wyatt Earp (film) (category Films set in Tombstone, Arizona)
    name's life, from an Iowa farmboy, to a feared marshal, to the feud in Tombstone, Arizona that led to the O.K. Corral gunfight. Starring Kevin Costner in the...
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    Frank Stilwell (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    have been self-defense. For four months he was a deputy sheriff in Tombstone, Arizona Territory for Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan. Stilwell owned...
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    Mattie Blaylock (category People from Tombstone, Arizona)
    marriage.: 47 : 65  Blaylock suffered from severe headaches and while in Tombstone, Arizona she became addicted to laudanum, a then-common opiate and pain killer...
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    connecting the town to Tombstone and Tucson. In addition, a railroad depot was constructed in 1882 along the just-extended New Mexico and Arizona Railroad, which...
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    Mountain Station, about 17 mi (27 km) northwest of Tucson. John Clum, of Tombstone, Arizona, fame, was one of the passengers. Pima County Sheriff Charles A. Shibell...
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