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    LETTERS

    Jul 06, 2021 3 minutes

    GUN CONTROL

    I’m a fan of this magazine and of John Boessenecker. His article “Damage Control,” in the April 2021 issue, missed the opportunity to quote from the Tombstone Daily Nugget. The following editorial appeared on Oct. 23, 1881, the Sunday morning prior to the gunfight on Fremont Street near the O.K. Corral.

    Paul Lee Johnson
    New York, N.Y.

    Editor responds: Johnson wrote the 2012 book The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary and the article “The Will of McLaury,” in the October 2013 Wild West and online at . Here’s the Nugget

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