PETER PRENGAMAN
Associated Press
TOMBSTONE, Ariz. (AP) — "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
And several more "bangs!" — the gunshots in this reenacted shootout happened so quickly I couldn't keep count.
"That was it," said the actor playing lawman Doc Holliday at the OK Corral's several-times-a-day show about what may be the most famous gun battle in the Old West. "Over before it even started."
Newcomers to Arizona, I had brought my wife and young children to Tombstone, about a three-hour drive southeast of Phoenix, to learn some of the state's history. I figured cowboys and gun battles would be more interesting to my 8- and 9-year-old boys than museums.
But the shootout was over so quickly I couldn't help but ask myself: "Why is this a big deal?"
There are numerous movies and books about
