Officials have informed that the original minutes of the coroner's inquest into the gunfight at the O. K. Corral 129 years ago in Tombstone, Ariz., have turned up safe.

Capitol Media services reported on Thursday that the handwritten notes from the coroner's inquest, conducted just days after the famous gunfight, hadn't seen the light of day for 50 years when clerks Michelle Garcia and Bonnie Cook came across them recently while cleaning out a closet holding Cochise County court records in Bisbee.

The historical documents, found in a manila envelope marked with "keep" and "1881" in a box marked "juvenile," were taken to the state Department of Library and Archives Wednesday for preservation.

According to the news report, the story of the gunfight at the O. K. Corral has long been a quintessential Wild West page-turner, with lawman Wyatt Earp teaming with brothers Virgil and Morgan, along with Doc Holliday, on Oct. 26,
1881, to go up against Frank and Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton, who all died.

State librarian Gladys Ann Wells said that while some poor-quality copies exist, the originals shed a few new rays of light on the gunfight.

She said, "Doc Holliday was carrying his weapon under his coat,", not strapped to his hip.

Denise Lundin, the chief court clerk, adding the documents are "just beautiful," said that the inquest clerk's note-taking appeared hurried, as if trying to keep pace with the witnesses' testimony. (With Inputs from Agencies)