4.3.2 Cowboys accuse Holliday of robbery.4.2 Earp and Behan attracted to Josephine Marcus.4.1 March stagecoach robbery and murder.3.6 Earp loses sheriff's office to Behan.He was pursued by county sheriff Johnny Behan, who had received a warrant from Tucson for Wyatt's killing of Frank Stilwell. Marshal in Cochise County, then took matters into his own hands in a personal vendetta. Wyatt Earp, newly appointed as Deputy U.S. The suspects in both incidents furnished alibis supplied by other Cowboys and were not indicted. On March 18, 1882, a Cowboy fired from a dark alley through the glass door of Campbell & Hatch's saloon and billiard parlor, killing Morgan Earp. On December 28, 1881, Virgil Earp was ambushed and maimed in a murder attempt by the Cowboys. The gunfight was not the end of the conflict. After a thirty-day preliminary hearing and a brief stint in jail, the defendants were shown to have acted lawfully. Ike Clanton subsequently filed murder charges against the Earps and Holliday. About thirty shots were fired in thirty seconds. Some members of the two opposing parties were initially only about 6 feet (1.8 m) apart. Fly's photography studio on Fremont Street, six doors west of the O.K. The shootout actually took place in a narrow lot on the side of C. Corral, which fronted Allen Street and had a rear entrance lined with horse stalls on Fremont Street. Since then, the conflict has been portrayed with varying degrees of accuracy in numerous Western films and books, and has become an archetype for much of the popular imagery associated with the Old West.ĭespite its name, the gunfight did not take place within or next to the O.K. Corral, after which the shootout became known by that name. The book was the basis for the 1939 film Frontier Marshall, with Randolph Scott and Cesar Romero, the 1946 film My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford, and the 1957 film Gunfight at the O.K. It was not well known to the American public until 1931, when Stuart Lake published the initially well-received biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal two years after Earp's death. The shootout has come to represent a period of the Old West when the frontier was virtually an open range for outlaws, largely unopposed by law enforcement officers who were spread thin over vast territories.
Marshal that day and had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier in combat. Wyatt is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was Tombstone town marshal and Deputy U.S. Virgil, Morgan, and Holliday were wounded, but Wyatt was unharmed. Ike Clanton, Billy Claiborne, and Wes Fuller ran from the fight. Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed. The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, brothers Ike and Billy Clanton, and brothers Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and Town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policemen and Earp's two younger brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side.
It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American Old West. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States. Corral was a thirty-second shootout between lawmen led by Virgil Earp and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that occurred at about 3:00 p.m.
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