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Subject: Here you go...=>

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Foggy

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Date Posted: 03:37:46 03/03/03 Mon
In reply to: Treval 's message, "Need some help!!!" on 09:04:18 03/01/03 Sat

The term O.K., used to name Tombstone, Arizona�s O.K. Corral, had its origins in the Pennsylvania Dutch country of New York State. During the 1836 presidential campaign, candidate Martin Van Buren was supported by a political club in his home town of Kinderhook originally called the "Oll Korrect" club. The name was later changed to "Old Kinderhook" and then shortened to "OK". Van Buren was an OK Club member, and his supporters used the term as a general descriptive term for their candidate who they saw as "above average" or "outstanding". The term eventually came into general use, and was thus chosen by John Montgomery to describe his O.K. Corral, livery and feed stable which he founded in Tombstone, Arizona in February, 1879.

The famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral did not take place inside the O.K. Corral. Instead, it began in a 15-foot wide vacant lot behind the Corral next to C.S. Fly�s Boarding House and Photography Studio where Doc Holliday was living. Today, visitors to the O.K. Corral Museum Complex can tour the O.K. Corral as it was in the 1880s, see Doc Holliday�s room, and visit the actual gunfight site.

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Author: Wyatt Earp the 7th [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:51:17 03/03/03 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Sorry pardner...Here you go =>

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Foggy
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Date Posted: 21:00:26 03/03/03 Mon

Finally, the showdown came in the famed shoot-out at the OK Corral, in which Frank and Tom McLowery and Billy Clanton were cut down in 30 second of gunfire. Virgil, Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday were wounded, the latter carrying a sawed-off shotgun no bigger than a horse pistol in length. Ike Clanton and John Ringo skeeddaddled off into the cactus of Old Mexico, while Wyatt rode down and gunned to earth several other of the rustling empire. Old Man Clanton got his when Mexican caught him stealing their cattle.

Wyatt said he was tired and went on to San Diego, California, into the real estate business, and then on to Alaska, where he opened up the Dexter Saloon there. Finally, he came back to do some mining near Needles and to develop oil lands in Kern County.

I got word of Wyatt's passing in 1929. Although he had some 100 shoot-outs and trouble, he died with his boots off at the ripe old age of 81

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