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Behind the Eight Ball

by | Sep 1, 2005 | Inside History

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March 18, 1882 It’s Saturday night and Morgan Earp wants to go out. A one-night showing of the play Stolen Kisses is being staged at the Turnverein Hall, north of Schieffelin Hall. It has been two-and-a-half months since Virgil Earp was shot, and, after a flurry of posses, raids, charges and counter-charges over the cow-boy killings, things are once again quiet in Tombstone, Arizona. Wyatt agrees to go out with his brother, even though the previous night, a local, Briggs Goodrich (whose la


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