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Re: On this day in 1881



"Gunfight at the OK Corral" sure scans better, doesn't it?  Do you suppose
this battle would have had such notoriety if it had been called "Gunfight
in the Vacant Lot..."?

Sylvia Bugbee
Assistant Archivist
University of Vermont

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Michael McColgin wrote:

> As every Wyatt Earp fan knows, today is the anniversary of the Gunfight in
> the Vacant Lot Next to C.S. Fly's Photographic Studio in Tombstone. Arizona
> Territory. The shooting started at 2:46 p.m. and lasted about thirty seconds.
>
>
> Michael McColgin
> Conservation Officer
> Arizona History and Archives Division
> mimccol@dlapr.lib.az.us
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