Has an original copy of the official inquest into the O.K. Corral shooting survived? A book by Al Turner purports to include the complete testimonies of the participants, but I also read that the original findings were lost in one of Tombstone’s fires.

Glenn Hebert Albuquerque, New Mexico I checked with Casey Tefertiller, one of the best experts on the Spicer hearing, and he says the original manuscript was given to a writer named Hal Hayhurst during the Great Depression as part of a WPA project. Hayhurst was assigned to transcribe the document, but he deleted or summarized much of the testimony, adding in notes that were anti-Earp. His edits deleted testimony that is important to understanding what occurred during the hearing. (Incidentally,