What can you tell me about Virgil Earp’s time in Colton, California? Joe Amason Delano, California While recuperating from wounds that had shattered his left arm after the December 28, 1881, ambush in Tombstone, Arizona, Virgil Earp spent two years with his parents in Colton, California. He also sought treatment from surgeons in San Francisco. Despite having only one good arm, Earp was hired by the Southern Pacific Railroad as a guard during a right-of-way feud the railroad was havin


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