Locals refer to Fifth and Allen, the corner where the Crystal Palace Saloon stands, as вЂњone of the bloodiest intersections in American history.вЂќ In 1880, Clara Spalding Brown, a correspondent for the San Diego Union, wrote of the violence: вЂњWhen saloons are thronged all night with excited and armed men, bloodshed must needs ensue occasionally.вЂќ Today Six Gun City Saloon, employing local actors, offers five historic gunfight reenactments a block away, Helldorado, a local theater troupe, performs shootouts. Stagecoaches transport passengers around town horses are tied to hitching posts reenactors carrying shotguns stroll the main street and women costumed in bustiers and skimpy dresses step in and out of the saloons. But the old buildings have been given face-lifts, and a visitor wandering the historic district can buy everything from period clothing and jewelry to chaps, spurs and a saddle. 1,560) still has the boardwalks, wooden awnings and false fronts of the original town, and the streets are still dusty with gusts of desert wind. Corral was populated by a mechanical gunfighter with whom, for a quarter, one could try oneвЂ™s luck, I was drawn back recently by reports that the town had come to life again. Having visited Tombstone in the 1970s, when the swinging doors of the Crystal Palace Saloon were virtually the only ones open and the O.K. Corral, starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas Kurt RussellвЂ™s 1993 Tombstone and Kevin CostnerвЂ™s 1994 Wyatt Earp. A Tombstone newspaper, the Epitaph, headlined its account of the event: вЂњThree Men Hurled into Eternity in the Duration of a Moment.вЂќ The Earp legend has been dramatized in many Hollywood films, including the 1957 classic Gunfight at the O.K. вЂњStill there is hope,вЂќ a new arrival reported, вЂњfor I know of two Bibles in town.вЂќДЄ year later, TombstoneвЂ™s marshal was named Virgil Earp, who, with his younger brothers, Wyatt and Morgan, and a gambler named Doc Holliday, vanquished the Clanton and McLaury boys in a gunfight at the O.K. By 1880, a town of the same name that sprang up around the mine was booming, with two dance halls, a dozen gambling spots and more than 20 saloons. When Schieffelin struck silver, he named his mine Tombstone. The soldiers warned him heвЂ™d find nothing there but his own tombstone. In 1877, silver prospector Ed Schieffelin set out from Camp Huachuca, an Army post in southeastern Arizona, heading for the Dragoon Mountains. Art Weisberger, Drue Montemayor and Pat Kelly

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