Tombstone’s Allen Street is one of the most notorious in the Old West. On the north side of the street saloons were open 24 hours a day. In 1880, Curly Bill Brocius shot and killed Tombstone Town Marshal Fred White on Allen Street. A year later Luke Short gunned
down Charlie Storms and later that same year Tombstone Town Marshal and Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp was badly crippled in a

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