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Description: Newspaper article from 1881, pertaining to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Text: A Desperate Fight Between Officers of the Law and Cow-Boys--The Killed and Wounded--Failure of Lord & Williams Tombstone, A.T., October 26th -- This morning, the City Marshall, V. W. Earp, arrested a cow-boy named Ike Clanton, for disorderly conduct, and he was fined twenty-five dollars and disarmed in the Justices' Court. Clanton left, swearing vengeance on the Sheriff and Marshall Earp and his brother Morgan who tried to induce Clanton to leave the town, but he refused to be pacified. About three o'clock P.M., the Earp brothers and J.H. Halliday met four cow-boys, namely the two Clanton brothers and the two McLowery brothers, when a lively fire commenced from the cow-boys against the three citizens. About thirty shots were fired rapidly. When the smoke of battle...(image cuts off here)
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