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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Arizona southeast of Tucson. After silver was discovered here in 1877, Tombstone became one of the richest and most lawless frontier mining towns.
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Examples
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I thought Johnny Ringo in "Tombstone" was good ... she schooled him with all those behind the back tosses.
Pistol Packin' Paula 2009
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I thought Johnny Ringo in "Tombstone" was good ... she schooled him with all those behind the back tosses.
Pistol Packin' Paula 2009
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"Tombstone" is a great movie, but "Wyatt Earp" was a little more realistic.
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Possibly the best-known lawmen of the era, Wyatt Earp is most famous for the Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona where he and his brothers - Virgil and Morgan - along with Doc Holliday stood against the Clanton-McLaury gang and the resulting Earp Vendetta that followed.
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The trouble is ... put it like this ... if I set a book in Tombstone, around about the time of Wyatt Earp, and I'd put in the Earps and the Clanceys and horses and cacti and silver mines, if I put in one lousy dragon, they'd call it a fantasy book.
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An interesting contrast, by the way, with the roughly contemporaneous law in Tombstone AZT (famous, of course, in breach):
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Right to Carry Concealed Guns Debate: Pretty Similar in 1872 and in 2010 2010
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And the gun law in Tombstone caused the death of three men.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Right to Carry Concealed Guns Debate: Pretty Similar in 1872 and in 2010 2010
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Dr. Ralph, I was thinking of Johnny Ringo in 'Tombstone too, when I saw her.
Pistol Packin' Paula 2009
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Otter: And the gun law in Tombstone caused the death of three men.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Right to Carry Concealed Guns Debate: Pretty Similar in 1872 and in 2010 2010
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Using professional video is a cost - and time-effective way of letting them practice — the scene leading up to the shootout in Tombstone is a great exercise for students practicing predicting violence and describing specific behaviors.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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