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* Fremont Hotel and Casino, a hotel / casino on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada
Corral on Fremont Street, and also in the street.
At about 2: 30 pm he saw Ike, Frank, Tom, and Billy gathered off Fremont street in a narrow wide empty lot or alley immediately west of 312 Fremont Street, which contained Fly's 12-room boarding house and photography studio.
The lot was also adjacent to Fly's, where Doc Holliday rented a room, and also on the route to the Earp's homes two blocks further west on Fremont Street.
Virgil Earp was told by several citizens that the McLaurys and the Clantons had gathered on Fremont Street and were armed.
The Earps and Holliday walked west, down the south side of Fremont Street, out of visual range of the Cowboys, toward the Cowboys ' last reported location.
King was in Everhardy's butcher shop on Fremont Street.
The Coroner's inquest and the Spicer hearing produced a sketch showing the Cowboys standing, from left to right facing Fremont Street, with Billy Clanton and then Frank McLaury near the MacDonald house and Tom McLaury and Ike Clanton roughly in the middle of the alley.
Morgan Earp was standing on Fremont Street to Wyatt's right, and Doc Holliday anchored the end of their line in Fremont Street, a few feet to Morgan's right.
Doc Holliday hung back a step or two on Fremont Street.
Witness C. H. " Ham " Light saw Tom running or stumbling westward on Fremont Street towards Third Street, away from the gunfight, while Frank and Billy were still standing and shooting.
Light testified that Tom fell at the foot of a telegraph pole on the corner of Fremont and 3rd Street and lay there, without moving, through the duration of the fight.
Frank lost control of his horse and, firing his weapon, crossed Fremont Street to the sidewalk on the east side.
Holliday followed Frank across Fremont Street, exclaiming, " That son of a bitch has shot me, and I am going to kill him.
Tom McLaury's personal revolver was at the Capital Saloon on 4th Street and Fremont about a block away.
For Behan's " testimony to make any sense, the court would have to believe that Holliday marched down Fremont Street carrying a shotgun ; put it aside in order to pull out his pistol ; fired the first shot, presumably at Billy Clanton ; and then picked up the shotgun in order to kill Tom McLaury — all in the space of a few seconds.
The second key witness was Addie Bourland, a dressmaker whose residence was across Fremont Street from Fly's Boarding House.

Fremont and Las
The annual game between the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is for possession of the Fremont Cannon.
Since 2003, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman has repeatedly stated that he favors legalization of prostitution in the city, perhaps turning East Fremont Street into a little Amsterdam.
As a result of the downtown Las Vegas restoration that began in 2006, mainly that of the Fremont East district, which spurred the opening of several new bars and clubs, a new music scene began sprouting up in Las Vegas.
The true story of how the game as it is played today came into being goes back to 1987 when a gambler named James Suttle learned the game from a down on his luck poker player while playing Texas Holdem at Binion's Horseshoe on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas scenes were filmed primarily in two locations, with the exterior casino shots taking place at the Stardust Resort & Casino and all the subsequent interior shots being filmed at the Fremont Hotel and Casino, farther north in downtown Las Vegas.
Historically, the casinos that were not in Downtown Las Vegas along Fremont Street were restricted to outside of the city limits on Las Vegas Boulevard.
The intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Fremont Street is the historic intersection with U. S. 93 and U. S. 95.
At this intersection, U. S. 93 and 95 departed Fremont Street and turned northeast onto Las Vegas Boulevard, heading northbound with U. S. 91.
The freeway, which began construction in 1982, is a continuation of the Oran K. Gragson Freeway ( named for the former Las Vegas mayor who advocated for the construction of the then Las Vegas Expressway ) which ran primarily along the former West Fremont Street alignment between Las Vegas Boulevard and Rainbow Boulevard.
Prior to the completion of the freeway, US 93 and US 95 originally followed Fremont Street / Boulder Highway from downtown Las Vegas southeast through Henderson towards to Boulder City.
Former performer Dixie Evans is the curator of the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las VegasThe Burlesque Hall of Fame is the name of the burlesque museum located on Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas.
In downtown Las Vegas, US 466 turned east on Fremont Street with U. S. Route 93 ( and later, U. S. Route 95 ).
In 2009, there were at least 75 pedestrian malls in the U. S. Besides the Kalamazoo Mall, some notable examples are the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, Vermont ; the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia ; Ann Arbor, Michigan ; the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California ; the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada ; the Buffalo Place Main Street Pedestrian Mall in Buffalo, New York ; Ithaca Commons in Ithaca, New York ; the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado ; St. Charles, Missouri ; Salem, Massachusetts ; Ped Mall in Iowa City, Iowa ; Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida ; CityPlace in West Palm Beach, Florida ; the Fulton Mall in Fresno, California ; the 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado ; State Street in Madison, Wisconsin ; Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; The Grove in Los Angeles, California ; Fort Street Mall in Honolulu, Hawaii ; City Center in Oakland, California ; Walnut Street in Des Moines, Iowa, Downtown Crossing and Faneuil Hall / Quincy Market in Boston ; Washington Street Mall in Cape May, New Jersey ; The Downtown Cumberland Mall in Cumberland, Maryland ; and many others.
Statue of Benny Binion when it was on Fremont Street, Las Vegas.
The Golden Nugget Las Vegas is a luxury casino-hotel located in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Fremont Street Experience.

Fremont and Vegas
He also created a cowgirl sign for his casino to compete with the iconic Vegas Vic sign across Fremont Street at the Pioneer Club.

Fremont and Nevada
As a result, Nevada regulators turned to the Boyds for help following an investigation of skimming operations at the Stardust and Fremont casinos in the mid-1980s.
Berkley moved with her family to Nevada when she was a junior high school student, attending Fremont Junior High.
* Fremont Pass ( Nevada ), in the Lake Range, 8 mi.
The California Hotel and Casino, also known as The Cal opened in 1975 at a cost of $ 10 million with a hotel and casino located in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada near the Fremont Street Experience.
The Fremont Hotel & Casino is located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, on the Fremont Street Experience.
The Fremont Street Experience ( FSE ) is a pedestrian mall and attraction in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
It held many Las Vegas " firsts ," including first hotel ( the Hotel Nevada in 1906, present day Golden Gate ), first telephone ( 1907 ), first paved street ( 1925 ), first Nevada gaming license — issued to the Northern Club at 15 E. Fremont St, first traffic light, first elevator ( the Apache Hotel in 1932 ), and the first high-rise ( the Fremont Hotel in 1956 ).
The Fremont Cannon is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Battle for Nevada, an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Nevada Wolf Pack football team of the University of Nevada, Reno ( Nevada ) and the UNLV Rebels football team of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas ( UNLV ).
The cannon was donated by Kennecott Copper and is a replica of a howitzer cannon that explorer John C. Fremont used on an expedition in 1843, and allegedly left in a snowdrift in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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