“Shootin’—Lynchin’—Hangin’,” announces the advertisement for Tombstone’s Helldorado Days festival. Dodge City’s Boot Hill Cemetery sports an �

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Photographs of the legendary Wild West town, frequented by Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, and other characters.