Arizona’s so-called “Classic Gunfight” starred a couple of men, Joe Phy and Pete Gabriel, who really aren’t household names in the world of famous gunfighters. Both had been lawmen in several towns before they came to Florence. They had mutual friends around the territory and had been friends before trouble arose between them. Their classic duel in the Tunnel Saloon had caused headlines in newspapers all over Arizona and was the subject of conversation for the next fifty years when old t


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