Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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Historic re-enactors head to the showdown at the site of the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, that became the subject of numerous Hollywood movies. The O.K. Corral (O.K. was short for Old Kindersley) was a livery and horse corral from 1879 to about 1888 in the mining boomtown in what was then Arizona Territory, near the border with Mexico. The 30-second shootout pitted lawmen, including the legendary Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, against a group of outlaws.
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Virgil Earp
Historical marker #2612 commemorates frontier lawman Virgil Earp and his family.
The Earp family settled in Ohio County, Kentucky, in 1827, where they stayed for 20 years. Nicholas Earp and Virginia Cooksey married in Hartford in 1840. While in…