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   From: g.kincaid@mchsi.com   
      
   "Dave in Toronto"  wrote in message   
   news:f4e72db8-049a-41db-a87e-9328f37403a0@l39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...   
   On Dec 16 2008, 5:50 am, Mike Muth    
   wrote:   
   > On Dec 12, 9:20 pm, "George Kincaid"  wrote:   
   >   
   > > "parky"  wrote in message   
   >   
   > >news:3ba6ee20-af36-4760-8c3c-6d22aa284d84@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com...   
   > > On Dec 9, 2:23 am, "George Kincaid"  wrote:   
   >   
   > > > Anybody here?   
   >   
   > > Yup, still here. Quiet, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.   
   > > Well that's two people. True, quiet is not necessarily bad; I was afraid   
   > > that the group might be dead.   
   >   
   > I pass through from time to time. I haven't seen a real discussion   
   > here in a very long time.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Mike   
      
      
      
   Same here.   
      
   For the record I've just read the best fiction book about Wyatt Earp   
   I've read so far _Trouble in Tombstone_ by Richard S Wheeler.  Good   
   look at the messy, dirty local politics of the period.  Difficult to   
   tell the good guys from the bad guys.  Told in the first person by   
   Wyatt himself.   
      
   Dave in Toronto   
      
   Speaking of the Earps---I was in Lamar, Missouri a couple months ago. I   
   stopped by the Harry Truman Birthplace State Historic Site. The house, from   
   the 1880s, is still pretty much intact, down to the outhouse. The privy was   
   under restoration as I visited. I asked the tour guide about the Earp   
   family's presence in the town. She told me there's no physical trace left,   
   but there are plenty of written records and local stories about them. She   
   was a little surpised at my questions. Wyatt's father was a judge in Barton   
   County, and he owned property and ran businesses, as did his sons. The   
   courthouse square and much of Lamar date to the 1870s and later. Worth a   
   stop if you happen to be in the Joplin or Carthage MO/Pittsburgh Kansas   
   area. There's local historical society in the courthouse.   
      
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