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Tombstone AZ - ALHAMBRA Saloon

Tombstone AZ - ALHAMBRA Saloon

Token from the ALHAMBRA, which was a saloon and lunch counter on Allen St. in Tombstone Arizona at least between -1881 - 1882-. GOOD FOR 12 1/2c IN TRADE, and listed as rarity R9. The owner, Richard Brinsley Sheridan Clark, was an owner of the ALHAMBRA and later the ORIENTAL Saloon in Tombstone, he was buried in Boot Hill Cemetery in 1893. Full story at this https://www.wmicentral.com/opinion/editorials/alhambra-saloon-owner-lived-a-life-of-gambling/article_15af9508-2477-11e2-94aa-001a4bcf887a.html
The following from the "Earp Trial - A Chronology" Oct 26, 1881 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/earpchronology.html
"Around 1:00 am, a well-oiled Clanton exchanges words with Doc Holliday at the Alhambra Saloon. Clanton suspects Holliday of spilling the beans about his secret agreement on the Wells Fargo reward with Earp, which threatens his standing in the "cowboy" (outlaw) community. Each men threatens the other, and Virgil Earp, the town marshal, is called to separate the two men. Clanton spends much of the night wandering around Tombstone and issuing threats against Holliday and the Earps. Wyatt brushes off a threat from Clanton and tells him to go home."

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