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The famous gunfight, which took place on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona, was a very real event in which two men were
wounded and three men were violently slain. However, as a number of movie versions have shown, the showdown neither resolved grievances, nor was it Ross’s vivid canvases, with their larger-than-life men and horses, keep alive this quintessential western story. One can almost hear the crack of the pistols and Holliday’s rifle, smell the gun smoke as it drifted off Fremont Street on that fateful day. And accompanying the feast of images is a foreword by Paul Hutton, Executive Director of the Western History Association, together with running text that concisely and accurately describes the sequence of events and the figures involved. |
an end in itself. Instead, the killings went on for months afterward. Thom Ross uses the famous confrontation as the inspiration
for his bold images, suggesting that the players in this historic drama have long since transcended the real circumstances of the shootout. Today, they embody the universal struggle to face and
overcome the dangers and obstacles that await us all in our lives
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Returning to Tombstone, Wyatt's posse next rode into the Dragoon Mountains, just east of town. They were looking for prime suspect Pete Spence. The men came upon Spence's wood-cutting camp, but Pete was nowhere to be found. As they left the camp, they encountered a man named Florentino Cruz. Earp, who suspected him of being in on the shootings of his brothers, simply killed him.
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