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Article: COME TO TOMBSTONE SITE OF SHOOTOUT AT O.K. CORRAL IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 24, 1990
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Byline: Joe Volz Maturity News Service
Nettie Fernley, the energetic 94-year-old piano player at the local Lucky Cuss' saloon, contends this desert outpost, 60 miles south of Tucson, is "a nice place to live with so many wonderful and busy people."
"There's a shootout every week," she exclaims.
Well, not quite.
It's every other Sunday when a group of local citizens, called the "Wild Bunch," re-enacts the infamous gunfight that put this town on the map - the shootout at the O.K. Corral.
Tombstone, once a bawdy, no- holds-barred silver-mining town, bigger and wilder than San Francisco a century ago, has calmed down ...