Analysis Of The Movie Tombstone

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The film Tombstone is set in the year 1879 in the town of Tombstone, Arizona. After the end of the civil war and the economic explosion that followed many people began to migrate west in search of better lives. Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp are among those people and move to Tombstone to start new and peaceful lives with their families. Wyatt’s longtime friend Doc Holliday also joins them in hope that the dry climate will help his tuberculosis. The men had made a lot of money in the town as they shared the profits of a saloon. Things however, turned for the worse as the brothers decided to become marshals of the town after the cowboys gang killed John Beham. The brothers and Doc then fought a long conflict with the cowboys until the last cowboy

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