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Can Can Restaurant
Quang Kee was a Chinese immigrant who arrived at Tombstone in 1879 and became partners with Ah Sing and Sing's wife known as China Mary...
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Dec 17, 2022


October 28, 1880 Marshal Fred White Shot By Curly Bill Brocius
On the night of October 28, 1880, Curly Bill Brocius along with a few other liquored up cowboys started firing their six-shooters in the air at the moon and stars. Town Marshal Fred White, who was nearby heard the shootings and went to investigate. He saw that the shoots were coming from cowboys near the corner of Allen and Sixth Street in a vacant lot (Where the Birdcage Theater was erected in 1881 and still stands today). When Marshal White confronted the cowboys, he let t
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Oct 27, 2022


October 26, 1881 "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."
Tensions were high between the Earp’s and the Cowboys. The gunfight lasted about 30 seconds and became the most famous gunfight in US History. Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, with friend Doc Holliday went to disarm Cowboy members Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton, Billy Claiborne, Tom McLaury, and Frank McLaury after many threats made against the Earps. Carrying a firearm in town was a town ordinance violation. The Cowboys where behind the OK Corral in a vacant lot next to the
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Oct 26, 2022
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