From: john-dean@frag.lineone.net   
      
   Clem Mattis wrote:   
   > Jane Candia Coleman has just published a   
   > fictionalized version of the unpublished memoirs of   
   > Alvira (Allie) Sullivan Earp, wife of Virgil.   
   >   
   > Tombstone Travesty, Allie Earp Remembers   
   > 2004, Five Star Press, Waterville, MA   
   >   
   > Does anyone know the details of how Virgil   
   > came to have his right arm nearly shot off   
   > at the elbow?  It happened *after* the famous   
   > OK Corral incident. It's not clear in the   
   > book what the actual circustances were that   
   > caused Virgil to lose the use of his left   
   > arm for the rest of his life. The book does   
   > mention that Wyatt went after two of the   
   > Clantons and Curly Bill for the shooting, but   
   > no details about how it happened.   
      
   He was shot from ambush on 28 December 1881 and pretty much lost the use   
   of his left arm.   
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   John Dean   
   Oxford   
      
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