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Many a Western legend was born over whisky and roulette at the Crystal Palace Saloon in Tombstone, Ariz. Wyatt Earp, who took part in the famed shootout at the O.K. Corral (just two blocks away), gambled there. Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson came for serious drinking, while upstairs Pioneer Surgeon George Goodfellow removed bullets from slow-moving cowboys. Despite harrowing moments and hard times, the saloon is still in business and is now up for sale. The asking price...
...carries some celebrity. Roy remembers Hugh O'Brian playing Wyatt Earp on television, and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp in the movie. Earp was a deputy marshal in Tombstone, the dust-blown Arizona town best known for a gunfight that gave him his fame, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Today McNeely is Tombstone's marshal. Tourists often ask him for his autograph, and he is flattered...
...sunsets that turned the land lavender. With fresh paint, new lumber and much of America out on the open road in the modern prairie schooner, the motor home, Tombstone was back in business, a going concern. The town hummed along selling tours of the cemetery and the O.K. Corral, silver and turquoise jewelry, antique mining implements, as well as the regrettable curios of the day: plastic scorpions, John Wayne on velvet, Elvis dinner plates...
Massada offers other exciting possibilities. The famous battle scene could be redone as Frontierland, a current Disney favorite. Here, one could take part in gunfights with those black hatted Romans--a sort of biblical O.K. Corral...
...destroyed this airline." Bryan's retort: "I'll tell them that you did it." To outside observers, it was no way to make a rational business decision. Says John Simmons, an Amherst, Mass.-based management consultant: "It didn't have to end in a shoot-out at the OK Corral...