What really caused the gunfight at the OK Corral? Most people chalk it up to a simple showdown between good and evil, with Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holliday on one side and the Clantons and ...
The Gunfight at the OK Corral has been immortalized by Hollywood in major motion pictures like Kurt Russell's 1993 classic Tombstone, and Kevin Costner's 1994 film Wyatt Earp. But did those films ...
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"Had to be," says Tombstone historian Ben Traywick. The gunfight, the culmination of a feud rooted in politics and love, took place Oct. 26, 1881. As for the politics, the Cochise County sheriff in ...
GOODIE OR BADDIE?: Wyatt Earp barely escaped hanging for his most notable accomplishment: leading his men in gunning down three assailants at the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral. That gunfight, on ...
About 3 o’clock on the afternoon of October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday faced off against four members of Tombstone’s cowboy contingent in the most famous gun battle of the Old West, ...
In the bad old days, Wyatt Earp was — depending on whom you asked — a famed lawman or a rascally bandit. Today he’s a brand of coffee and a steak sauce and a slew of Web sites (most prominently ...
BEARDSTOWN — In 1869, Wyatt Earp was trying to find his place in this world. At age 21, the Monmouth native had already spent years scraping together a living via a variety of enterprises — including ...