What could be better than a bit of history coming to life?
Furthermore, as a resident of Arizona, the other stories coming out of this state are too exhausting to even think about.
The famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral we all have heard of from the movie.
Well, the original testimony from the eyewitnesses who were in Tombstone, Arizona has been found.
http://m.npr.org/...
Wells said the fragile paper will be stabilized and scanned. Within a week, the first pages should be published on the Internet for history buffs all over the world to see.
Historians say documents from the coroner's inquiry into the gunfight were lost until now.
The documents are handwritten. Time has turned the papers a pale yellow, and for decades, they had been gathering dust in the Cochise County courthouse. Then, on March 31, clerks Bonnie Cook and Michelle Garcia found an envelope in a storage closet.
Inside were 36 pages: firsthand accounts of the legendary shootout on Oct. 26, 1881, between the Earp brothers and a band of cattle rustlers. In movie-script fashion, one witness recalls the moments just before the gunfire broke out.
"Mr. Holliday was standing next to the buildings," the witness is quoted as saying. "On the inside he had a gun under his coat. He had a long coat. The way I noticed the gun is that his coat would blow open, and he tried to keep it covered."
State librarian GladysAnn Wells says it's a huge discovery.
Here's a trip down memory lane...my husband just commented that it's in hi-fi...I'm betting you younguns have no clue what a big deal that was at the time! Was it comparable to the Iphone? That may be a stretch, but it was BIG!