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  • CultureDose of HistorySmall Town Scene
    By Taylor Haynes
    May 3, 2019
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    Have you Seen These Movies Based on This Infamous Shootout?

    Arizona’s history is populated by memorable characters and iconic locations. The unforgiving desert climate molded some of the toughest figures in the southwest: Doc Holliday, Ike Clanton, “Curly Bill” Brocius, just to name a few. There’s one event in particular that has sparked the imagination of filmmakers for decades: the shootout at the O.K. Corral. ...
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  • Arizona State Flag
    Dose of HistoryOdd Observations
    By Sam Lowe
    August 8, 2015
    2027
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    Some Random Odd Stuff About Arizona

    Arizona is filled with peculiarities, weird stuff, unusual things, oddities, curiosities and that doesn't even include a state legislature that passed a law naming the Colt .45 as the state's official gun. Here are a few others worth mentioning.
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  • Dose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    October 31, 2013
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    Rotten Row: A Glimpse into the Lives of Boom Town Lawyers

    Quite naturally, it was only a matter of time before disputes over boundaries of mining claims and real estate properties required the presence of the much-maligned frontier lawyer. Litigation became the single most lucrative, money making scheme among this frontier society dedicated to the principles of getting rich without working.
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  • Buford House in Tombstone
    CultureSouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    August 14, 2013
    3665
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    George Daves and Petra Edmunds: Tragic Tombstone Love Story May Not Be What It Seems

    Have you heard of George Daves and Petra Edmunds? Legend has it these lovers took part in an attempted murder-suicide in front of the Buford House in Tombstone in the late 1880s. However, our friends at Paranormal Intuitive Investigations in Sierra Vista may have debunked the lore.
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  • Dose of History
    By Sam Lowe
    April 24, 2013
    9261
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    The Legend of Big Nose Kate

    Bet you've never heard or read much about Mary Katherine Harony, right? It's probably because she was more commonly known as Big Nose Kate, the one time consort of Doc Holliday. A native of Hungary, she moved with her family to Mexico but when her parents died she was placed in a foster home...
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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    February 22, 2013
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    Whatever Happened to Ike Clanton?

    Do you ever get to wondering whatever happened to Ike Clanton? He survived the infamous Gunfight at the OK Corral, but then where'd he go? Well, he died anyway. Fatally wounded in a different shootout.
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  • CultureSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    December 12, 2012
    3718
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    The Bird Cage Poker Game that Went On — and On — and On

    TOMBSTONE -- The Bird Cage Theater here was originally built as an opera house - The Elite - but it didn't serve in that capacity very long. A short time after it was opened, it was renamed the Bird Cage Theater and it quickly became known across the West as the roughest, bawdiest and most ...
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  • Odd ObservationsSmall Town SceneSouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    October 10, 2012
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    Paranormal Investigators Seek Out Haunted Relics from Old Arizona

    Arizona has a dynamic and diverse history. Many of yesterday’s relics and landmarks intrigue today’s residents and visitors. Towns like Jerome and Bisbee have staked reputations on haunted hotels, mines and other attractions.
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  • Arizona's First Printing Press in Tubac, Tubac Presidio Museum
    CultureDose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    June 28, 2012
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    Those Bombastic Frontier Gazettes and Their Irrepressible Fighting Editors!

    Following that magnetic trail west and hot on the harbingering heels of fur trappers, prospectors, cowboys, merchants, politicians and preachers, were frontier fourth estaters armed with crude little hand presses and big-time dreams.
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  • Dose of HistorySouthern Arizona
    By Andrea Aker
    April 30, 2012
    3241
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    Endicott Peabody: Religion Arrives in Helldorado

    Ominous clouds hovered over Tombstone that January morning in 1882, as the Sandy Bob Stage rambled into town in a cloud of dust. The grey sky gave forewarning of a fast-approaching snowstorm. The passengers arriving that morning were, with one exception, typical— a military officer on his way to Fort Huachuca, an elderly Jewish peddler ...
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