Dollar Ike
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Dollar Ike
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 1974 Sterling Silver Ike Dollar Necklace VINTAGE  US $41.00
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 1973 BU SILVER EISENHOWER DOLLAR BLUE IKE US $9.99
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 1972 P Type 2 PCGS AU58 Eisenhower Ike Dollar Rare US $81.00
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Badges That Won The West -- Tombstone, Arizona Marshal'S Badge
The Tombstone, Arizona U.S. Marshal's Badge recalls the mining town of Tombstone, with its storied Boot Hill Cemetery and Gunfight at the OK Corral. Even though history records several gunfights with more combatants and a much higher body count, the OK Corral shoot-out is acknowledged by historians to be the most famous gunfight in the history of the American West.
Though Tombstone was quite a metropolitan city for its day and time, its remote location made it an isolated place, surrounded by unpopulated desert with no railroad access.
By the 1880s, Tombstone was known as one of the deadliest places in the west--thanks to a bitter feud between a criminal gang calling themselves the "Cow-Boys" and the businessmen, investors and immigrant miners who ran the city and the nearby silver mines.
On October 26, 1881, at about three in the afternoon, this simmering powder keg exploded in a hail of gunfire that would come to be known as the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Virgil and Morgan Earp, their brother Wyatt and the notorious gunslinger, Doc Holliday, shot it out with five of the Cow-Boys that included Ike Clanton and his younger brother, Billy, along with the McLaury brothers, Frank and Tom, and Billy Claiborne.
According to a clipping from The Epitaph, Tombstone's famous newspaper, the trouble began when Ike Clanton was arrested that morning for violating a city ordinance against carrying firearms within Tombstone city limits.
Virgil Earp was Tombstone's City Marshal, and also a Deputy Federal Marshal for Arizona Territory. Like many lawmen hired to be "town tamers" in that era, the first thing Virgil had done after taking the job was ask the city council to enact an ordinance against carrying guns within the city limits.
The charge against Clanton that morning was disorderly conduct. He put up a fight when Virgil asked him to surrender his pistol, and was pistol-whipped, disarmed and fined twenty-five dollars. He paid the fine, was released and left town, after swearing to return and take vengence upon the Earp brothers.
Expecting trouble from the Cow-Boys, Virgil had temporarily deputized Wyatt, and Wyatt's long-time friend, Doc Holliday. True to his word, Clanton returned that afternoon with his brother, Billy, the two McLaury brothers and Billy Claiborne in tow. The famous confrontation--in which thirty shots were fired in the space of about thirty seconds--actually began in William Harwood's lumber yard, which was located just down the street from the rear entrance to the OK Corral, and had spilled out onto Fremont Street by the time it ended.
Considering the proximity of the combatants to each other, it was a miracle that only three men died that day. Billy Clanton and the two McLaurys were killed. Realizing they would be facing four men--at least two of which had formidable reputations as gunmen--instead of the two lawmen they expected must have put an instant damper on Ike Clanton's and Billy Claiborne's tempers. Claiming to be unarmed, Clanton and Billy Claiborne both ran from the fight, and because they ran, both of them survived.
Wyatt Earp was unscathed, and Doc Holliday received only a couple of near-miss bullet holes through his coat, but Virgil Earp was shot through the calf of one leg, and Morgan received a severe wound to the shoulder. Outnumbered 5 to 2, it's unlikely that Virgil and Morgan Earp would have survived the armed confrontation with the Clanton faction, if Virgil hadn't deputized Wyatt and Holliday. That didn't stop County Sheriff John Behan from charging both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday with murder in the incident, however, on the grounds that neither were lawmen at the time of the shootout. But a grand jury would twice decline to indict either man, and the charges were eventually dropped.
Though all three Earp brothers survived the OK Corral shootout, they suffered brutal reprisals from vindictive Cow-Boys afterward. Virgil Earp was shot from ambush and lost the use of his left arm as a result of his wounds. Morgan Earp was shot and killed a short time later, provoking Wyatt Earp to embark on his famous "vendetta ride", vowing to wipe out the Cow-Boys once and for all. Ironically, Ike Clanton didn't die in the vendetta ride. He would die six years later, shot down by lawmen while resisting arrest after he was caught rustling cattle in 1887.
Doc Holliday died that same year of tuberculosis at the age of 36 in a Glenwood Springs, Colorado sanitorium.
Wyatt Earp lived many more years, moving to Los Angeles in his later years, where he became friends with movie cowboys, Tom Mix and William Hart, and died peacefully in his bed at the age of 81.
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1972 Coin Set - 6 Coins (Ike dollar, Kennedy half, Washington quarter, dime, nickle, Lincoln cent) $12.48 1972 Coin Set - 6 Coins (Ike dollar, Kennedy half, Washington quarter, dime, nickle, Lincoln cent) |
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Ike $1.24 Ike Button Kyle's adopted brother Ike. South Park. Comedy Central. |
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1978 YEAR SET-6 COINS -IKE DOLLAR KENNEDY HALF WASHINGTON QUARTER DIME NICKEL LINCOLN CENT- ALL DATED 1978 ENCASED IN A PLASTIC DISPLAY $1000 1978 YEAR SET-6 COINS -IKE DOLLAR KENNEDY HALF WASHINGTON QUARTER DIME NICKEL LINCOLN CENT- ALL DATED 1978 ENCASED IN A PLASTIC DISPLAY |
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Artscape: An Ike Schwartz Mystery $4.19 Ike Schwartz thought he could return to his hometown and ditch the demons that pursue him. More than anything, he wanted to blot out the pain and anger that came when his wife of less than a month was gunned down in a CIA foul-up. So he buried himself as sheriff in rural Picketsville, Virginia, a community indistinguishable from any of the hundreds of small towns that hang like beads on Interstate 81 running from Pennsylvania down to Georgia. Aside from its Civil War history, Picketsville's only real claim to fame is Callend College, a private women's school located just within its corporate limits. The college is notable, in turn, for housing one half of the billion dollar Dillon art collection, carefully secured in an underground bunker originally built in the late 1950s as a super bomb shelter. It's bad news for both Dr. Ruth Harris, the newly hired president of the college, and for a shadowy group whose services have been contracted by Middle Eastern fanatics--The New Jihad--when the collection is scheduled to be removed to New York. The plan is to steal the half billion dollars worth of fine art and statuary, and ransom it back for millions. With the closure of the facility imminent, the operation must be moved forward, which, in turn, creates unanticipated risks and problems. And everyone dismisses Ike Schwartz as a stereotypical rural sheriff. He is, however, a man with uncommon skills, a tough hide, and a notable past--all of which make an arresting first novel. |
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