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Marked w/ two American flags is the grave of Virgil Earp in River View Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. He was both a U.S. Marshal & Tombstone, Arizona City Marshal famous for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881 against an outlaw group known as the Cowboys. The 30-second shootout also involved other lawmen including his younger brothers Wyatt, Morgan, & Doc Holliday to which everyone was wounded except Wyatt. Despite future assassination attempts, Virgil would later live in California & then Goldfield, Nevada where he would die of pneumonia on October 19, 1905.
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