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devised a wire framework and in a series of treatments and plastic surgery successfully restored
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556:The San Bernardino Daily Sun
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435:Tucson Citizen Morgue Part 1
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787:Tom McLaury
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241:Virgil Earp
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172:Los Angeles
162:, during a
132:Ike Clanton
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1065:Contention
1060:Charleston
929:James Earp
924:Fred Dodge
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855:Wyatt Earp
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