Shootout at the OK Coral


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This month’s Travel Plans:
7. Jan. 20th Willis, TX at Lake Conroe (TT) RVP x 12 nights. (190m)
Seguin, TX -Overnight (156m)
4. Feb. 2nd Lakehills, TX at Medina Lake RVR (TT) x 13 nights (71m)
5. Feb. 15th Fort Stockton, TX overnight
6. Feb. 16th El Paso, TX – overnight
7. Feb. 17th Deming, NM overnight
8. Feb. 18th Benson, AZ at Valley Vista RVR(T3) x13 nights
Phoenix, AZ overnight

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2.25.2019…Shootout at the OK Coral

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.On October 26, 1881 The Earp brothers had a shootout with the Ike and Billie Clanton  Frank  McLaury and Billy Claiborne. Unlike television, in this shootout the good guys wore black.


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The Earp Brothers, Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan, with Doc Holiday. I believe that Wyatt was the Tombstone Marshall..Below…the bad guys. .members of the Clanton family.
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This shootout at the OK Coral did not actually take place at high noon, but a little after 1PM. It wasn’t a long battle, about thirty seconds.

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.The bad guy came out the losers. Ike and Billie and left the town wounded.Wyatt, I believe, was not shot unlike his brothers and Doc Holiday.

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After the OK Coral incident Wyatt went on for several years looking for a town that his talents would help only to search in despair. A Sheriff who witnessed the shootout the good guys were charged with murder, only to have those charges dismissed.
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“Everything we were, we carry with us. 
Everything we will be, is calling to us,  
from the roads not travelled yet." pjgrenier

 


			

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