The Gunfight at the OK Corral
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Territorial News www.territorialnews.com www.facebook.com/TerritorialNews Vol. 33, No. 6 Your Connection to the Old West October 16, 2019 Next Issue Wednesday The Gunfight at October 30 the OK Corral Play Arizona Trivia Long Simmering Feud Explodes in Violence See Page 2 for Details his month marks outlaws.” The town also the 138th anniver- attracted an all-star cast of This Week’s Tsary of the most fa- Western personalities, in- mous western gunfight of cluding Bat Masterson, Doc Question: them all. The Gunfight at Holliday, Johnny Ringo, the O.K. Corral wasn’t the Nellie Cashman, and the longest gunfight in west- aforementioned Wyatt Arizona’s population ern history; it lasted less Earp. grew rapidly after than 30 seconds. It wasn’t Wyatt, along with his World War II, due in the deadliest, either; three brothers Virgil and Mor- part to the develop- men died and two were gan arrived in Tombstone ment of what? wounded. It didn’t even in 1879. Tagging along (15 Letters) occur at the O.K. Corral; with them was an ornery, it happened in a fifteen-to consumptive dentist named twenty-foot space between Doc Holliday and his com- Fly’s Lodging House and panion “Big Nose” Kate. photographic studio, and Before arriving in Tomb- the MacDonald assay house stone, Wyatt had a check- Index west of it, then spilling out ered past. While working onto Fremont Street. as a deputy marshal in Mis- souri in 1871, he was ac- Arizona Kid..................9 Tombstone, Arizona, cused of pocketing license Arizona Trivia................2 was a tough place in 1881. fees he had collected. Lat- Business Directory........14 The promise of wealth from er that same year he was Classifieds....................14 mines rich in silver and oth- charged with stealing two Jim Harvey.....................2 er minerals helped swell the population to over 12,000. horses in Indian Territory. Clockwise from upper left: Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp estimated that There was even an accusa- Doc Holliday, Ike Clanton of that 12,000, “about 400 tion of “Keeping and Being were cattle thieves, stage In Their Own Words robbers, murderers, and (See Tombstone on Page 4) Allotment John Doyle Lee Plan to Divide and Allot Tribal Land to Individual Indian Owners Controversial Mormon Figure he long-running cul- The politics behind the some of its strongest sup- ohn Doyle Lee is per- ligion, which had been tural battle between plan were complicated. Al- porters were Indian rights haps the most contro- formally organized only the com- advocates, who Jversial figure in Mor- seven years before. Lee’s T mon history. He was born religious passion quickly munal land claims hoped a land deed of various Indian would ensure legal in 1812 in Kaskaskia, Illi- became the driving force tribes and the indi- protection. nois Territory. As a young in his life. Over the next vidual land deeds Many clans man Lee moved to Van- several years, Lee became of the new settlers were divided on the dalia, Illinois, where he more involved in the Mor- ended with a plan question of accept- met and married Agatha mon Church and in 1838 called “allotment.” ing it. Some people Ann Woolsey in 1833. he was promoted within By an act of Con- agreed with U.S. It was in Vandalia the priesthood and made gress, tribal lands Senator Henry Tell- that Lee and his wife en- a member of the First were surveyed and Government surveyors plotting er: “The real aim is countered Mormonism. Quorum of the Seventy, parceled to individ- Indian land for Allotment to get at the Indians’ In 1837 a Mormon mis- the body that directed ual Indian families in 160- though it meant the end of a sionary converted the acre lots. traditional Indian lifestyle, (See Survey on Page 7) couple to the young re- (See Controversy on Page 6) Page 2 Territorial News October 16, 2019 Come Holy Spirit Arizona - Web of Time Come, Holy Spirit, come Let thy bright beams arise, Dispel the darkness from early 1860s there were cattle our minds, And open all our eyes. drives by Texas and New Jim Harvey Mexico ranchers across the Revive our drooping faith, Our doubts The Arizona Trail and fears remove, And kindle in our deserts of southern Arizona to California where beef breasts the flame Of everlasting Love. Oatman, southwest of carried supplies for pros- sold at inflated prices. It was Amen! Kingman on old Route 66, pectors. a dangerous business, and was turned into a boom town in 1854, Apache warriors by a 1915 gold strike. A Long before it was a ter- ran off 3,000 head of cattle, Captain’s Bar Presents year later the population in- ritory of the United States, which was one third of all creased from a few hundred Arizona was the northern the herds bound for the West ARIZONA TRIVIA to more than 3,000 miners, frontier of Spain’s new world Coast on Arizona trails that This Week’s Question: Arizona’s population grew rapidly speculators, merchants, sa- empire from the late 1600s year. after World War II, due in part to the development of what? loon keepers, restaurant and to 1821 when it was claimed (15 Letters) hotel operators. The boom by a Mexican government Cynthia Miller was Last Issue’s Question: Which US President visited the ended in the 1920s when the independent of Spanish rule. 15 years old and Thomas Grand Canyon on numerous occasions to hunt gold began to run out. The It became part of the U.S. in Sanders was 20 when they mountain lion and enjoy the scenery? public is welcome to visit 1848. got married on a ranch near Answer: Theodore Roosevelt today and feed the wild bur- 1873 Prescott. They rode to Congratulations! You got the right answer! ros, whose ancestors once During the 1850s and California in a horse-drawn wagon for their honeymoon. Leo Achin, Sid Clarke, Larry Damer, Serena Desylva, Doyle Ekey, Jeanne Finch, Richard Fordyce, Kevin Gartley, Robert Lidgett, Robert Ringer, Bill Riordan, William Smith, Gary Swanson, Nancy Swanson. A Phoenix vigilante committee of farmers deter- How to Play mined to maintain law and Letters are hidden in the advertisements. 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October 16, 2019 Territorial News Page 3 Uncle Billy’s Trouble With His Glass Eyes By Richard W. Kimball concerned were boarders Not long after he re- at the Shoo-Fly boarding turned to Arizona, Uncle Bil- rontier life for most house. All are now dead, ly lost all his money during people in the Old West or out of service years and a gambling frenzy. Bourke Fwas usually mighty years ago.” said it happened as he made humdrum. Except for an oc- He said Uncle Billy his way around the gaming casional gunfight or bank had the “grievance misfor- tables during the Fest of Saint robbery, life in most western tune of losing one of his Augustine.