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Tombstone

Former silver-mining town in the desert of southeastern Arizona, USA. The gunfight at the OK Corral, with deputy marshal Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and ‘Doc’ Holliday against the Clanton gang, took place here on 26 October 1881.
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