In Arizona: Taming a Troublesome Town

Roy McNeely is pleased that after a career as a truck driver and a guitar player he has hit on a role that carries some celebrity. Roy remembers Hugh O'Brian playing Wyatt Earp on television, and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp in the movie. Earp was a deputy marshal in Tombstone, the dust-blown Arizona town best known for a gunfight that gave him his fame, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Today McNeely is Tombstone's marshal. Tourists often ask him for his autograph, and he is flattered.

Flattery, however, does not ease the responsibility of keeping the peace in a town...

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