“Oh my God, Morgan Earp has been killed!”
The cry reverberated through the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. John Clum, town mayor and editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, took the stage at the Crystal Palace Saloon to confirm the rapidly spreading rumor. The faction between the Cowboys and the Earps had once again turned deadly. A posse was being organized to hunt the killers.
But the date wasn’t March 18, 1882, when Morgan Earp was back-shot at Campbell and Hatch’s Billiard Parlor. The
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