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[ARIZONA TERRITORY]. Three Issues of The Daily Arizona Citizen. Vol. 1, Nos. 191, 192, 197. Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, November 5, 6, 13, 1879. Each issue is four folio pages on large folded sheets. Each page approximately 487 x 344 mm. Pages toned, worn, chipped, marginally toned, folded sheets separated at central fold, paper brittle. With advertisements and articles, many of which center on Tucson or Tombstone, Arizona. These newspapers were published a few weeks before Virgil Earp was appointed Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Tombstone District (November 27, 1879), and he, and his brothers Wyatt and Jim, arrived on December 1. These newspapers were published nearly two years before the famous “Gunfight at the O. K. Corral,” the most famous gunfight of the Old West.