Tombstone

A detailed Summary of Tombstone

Late 1800s, the adveture of Dick Clark

& the famous O.K. Corral gunfight

"Tombstone has had its share of troublesome people and its high rollers such as the famous

Dick Clark. Dick Clark was a trick cards men, having an ace up his sleeve or dropping an extra

card on the ground for the fun of taking the pot. In 1881 Dick Clark, whose real name was Richard,

had run his own saloon in Tombstone. The name of Clacks saloon was 'The Alhambra', with

people not being to very good of friends with Clark he had few equals. Clark's saloon was most

likely one of the best gamgling establishments. Earlier in mr. Clarks gambling days he had played

poker in the army for their money and had enlisted again only to gamble with the army dudes.

Tombstone had had some of the best poker games, such as Dick's game against Senator Horace

Tabar, and Clark had cleaned him out. Clark had been known for winning as much as 1000 dollars

in 6 hands, I believe no one would want to play him when he was on a roll. On his way from coast

to coast he was told by a doctor that he had seen that he had an uncurable sickness and would later

die. The Clark Family, Dick, his wife, an

silver from mines gave word and it inherited fotune hunters, gamblers, gunfighters, and merchants.

partly owned. The bar is one of the favorites of the Earp clan; where occasionally Morgan and Doc

This town had , by 1881, a population of 7 thousand and most of which was served by 110 licensed

Wyatt had reason to believe that Ike had spread word about Wyatt's deal with him that Ike later

liquor establishments. Because of the way the people are in Tombstone it was a place in which it

Earps in hot pursuit of Leonard, Crane, and Head, A seventeen day search and they returned empty

of them Billy. The Mclaurys that were Robert, Thomas, and Frank. Allied with both families was

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