TTR Tombstone History Discussion Board

I thought that a great topic for a panel or talk at the 2O26 Symposium would be why we Keep talking about the Fremont street shoot-out. We keep writing and reading about it and making movies about it and reenacting it. Tombstone tourism, to a large extent, is built upon it, going back to the first Helldorado Days in 1929. Back then, John Clum deplored the reenactment of the gunfight. But we, for the most part, don’t. We’re fascinated by it. But why?

So I thought I'd ask here, what's the attraction of the gunfight? Why do we keep researching and writing about it? Any ideas? Gil Storms