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Even When It Comes To History, The Customer Is Always Right. By Leigh Rich THE STORY IS all too familiar. The characters are always the same--Wyatt and Virgil, Billy and Ike, Doc Holliday, Johnny Ringo, Sheriff Behan and Big Nose Kate. And the conflict expeditiously plays out at the O.K. Corral. But the latest maverick to arrive in the town too tough to die is a Norwegian scholar with new views on the legendary Arizona gunfight. Far from the cozy comforts of temperate Norway, Odd Are Berkaak isn't the typical Tombstone-ologist. A mild-mannered anthropologist from the University of Oslo who'...

Armed and Dangerous on the American Frontier

Dr. George Goodfellow of Tombstone is best-remembered today as the "Gunshot Physician." He patched up outlaws like Curly Bill Brocius, doctored the wounded Virgil and Morgan Earp after the Gunfight at OK Corral. When the mortally wounded Billy Clanton asked to have his boots removed so he could “die with his boots off,” Doc Goodfellow obliged.

May 3, in history: In 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian politician, writer, historian and philosopher, was born. The renaissance diplomat is best known for his 1513 treatise, "The Prince," in which an “ends justify the means” idea of politics employs being sneaky, cunning, and having no moral code. Today he is often called the father of modern political philosophy. In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city. In 1921, West Virginia imposed the first State Sales Tax. In 1937, Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1952, the first la...

True West Magazine Gunfight at OK Corral Are the guns used by the participants at the Gunfight Near the OK Corral in Museums or in the hands of private collectors? There have been many guns touted as being “authentic” over the years but thus far none have been confirmed.  Jeff Morey and Casey Tefertiller are two of the most noted experts on the Gunfight Behind the OK Corral. Morey, says “Frank McLaury’s and Billy Clanton’s six shooters were identified by their serial numbers at the Spicer Hearing but neither weapon has surfaced. Weapons belonging to the Earp’s and Doc Holiday wer...