From: clough@texas.net   
      
   Von Fource wrote:   
      
   >     Dang, what in the heck was going on in Tombstone to make it so violent?   
   > Sounds like a hells kitchen to me.   
   >  I thought Tombstone had one or two gun fights and that was all?   
   >   
   > Von   
      
   There were a lot of tough towns. Some of them worked real hard at   
   earning the name. Some of them you won't likely have heard of. And folks   
   died of wounds and illnesses that today wouldn't get you listed as   
   "serious" in a hospital. (Note the last name on the list, bitten by a   
   hog.) There was one place in Texas where, when the Rangers finally came   
   in to clean it up, they built a corral and herded just about every adult   
   male in the area into it. It was easier to cut out the more of less   
   peaceful ones than to try to round up the bad ones.   
      
   The deadly nature of most of the tough towns was short-lived, a boomtown   
   phenomenon. But once a town got a name as a hard place, it's   
   understandable that a lot of those who were prepared to set foot in it   
   were hard men.   
      
      
   --   
                          Gerald Clough   
                         clough@texas.net   
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