Even When It Comes To History, The Customer Is Always Right.
By Leigh Rich
THE STORY IS all too familiar. The characters are always
the same Wyatt and Virgil, Billy and Ike, Doc Holliday, Johnny
Ringo, Sheriff Behan and Big Nose Kate. And the conflict expeditiously
plays out at the O.K. Corral. But the latest maverick to arrive in the town too tough to die
is a Norwegian scholar with new views on the legendary Arizona
gunfight. Far from the cozy comforts of temperate Norway, Odd Are Berkaak
isn t the typical Tombstone-ologist. A mild-mannered anthropologist
from the University of Oslo who s well-versed in nebulous topics