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Who Stopped the Near-Showdown Between Gunfighters “Doc” Holliday and John Ringo?

by | Jul 16, 2018 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

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Who stopped the near-showdown between gunfighters “Doc” Holliday and John Ringo? Paul Gortarez Phoenix, Arizona Jim Flynn stopped the near-showdown. After the O.K. Corral street fight on October 26, 1881, Virgil Earp was suspended temporarily. Flynn, Virgil’s deputy, was named acting chief of police for Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Virgil reclaimed the position after he was cleared by the Spicer Hearings. When assassins shot and crippled Virgil on December 28, a special city electio


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