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Though usually opposing each other in their reporting of events, the initial reporting by both The Tombstone Epitaph and The Nugget supported the lawmen's version of events.

This may have been because the pro-Cowboy Nugget publisher Harry Woods was out of town during the hearings, leaving an experienced reporter, Richard Rule, to write the story.

The Nugget staff had a close relationship with Sheriff Behan, but his story as quoted in the Nugget the day after the shootout backed up the Earp's version of events, which varied widely from Behan's and the Cowboys ' later court testimony.

Subsequent stories about the gunfight published in the Nugget after that day supported Behan and the Cowboys ' view of events.