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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Directed by Paul Landres. With Hugh O'Brian, Douglas Fowley, James Seay, Steve Brodie. Earp recalls in court the details of the day when the Clanton gang rides into Tombstone to shoot it out with the Earps and his plans initially to head off a street battle by arresting each one of the gang separately and then the ...
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- Paul Landres
- 1961-06-20
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys. While lasting less than a minute on October 26, 1881, the gunfight has been the subject of books and films into the 21st century.
Mar 26, 2020 · What really happened at the gunfight at the O.K. Corral? Movies and T.V. portray Wyatt Earp and his brothers as law-abiding heroes—but the real story of the most famous shoot out in U.S....
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Earp recalls in court the details of the day when the Clanton gang rides into Tombstone to shoot it out with the Earps and his plans initially to head off a street battle by arresting each one of the gang separately and then the gunfight. 8.5/10. Rate. Top-rated. Tue, Feb 18, 1958. S3.E23. Wyatt Earp Rides Shotgun.
- Early Life
- Tombstone, Arizona
- OK Corral
- Later Life and Legend
- Sources
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. The third of five sons born to Nicholas and Virginia Ann Earp, he spent his early life in Illinois and Iowa. As a young teenager, Wyatt repeatedly tried to run away and join his brothers James and Virgil and his half-brother Newton, who fought for the Union during the Civil War; each ti...
During this period, Earp frequented the saloons, gambling houses and brothels that proliferated on the frontier, and had several run-ins with law enforcement. But after helping a police officer in Wichita track down a wagon thief, Earp joined that city’s police force in 1875 and later became deputy town marshal of Dodge City. It was in Dodge City t...
In March 1881, while pursuing a group of cowboys who had robbed a stagecoach, Wyatt struck a deal with local rancher Ike Clanton, who had ties to the cowboys. Clanton soon turned against him, however, and began threatening the Earp brothers. The feud escalated, and on October 26, 1881, it finally exploded into violence in a gunfight at the OK Corra...
After leaving Tombstone, Wyatt Earp moved around the West, eventually settling in Californiawith Josephine Marcus, with whom he would spend the next 40 years. Over the years, he made an itinerant living by gambling, saloon-keeping, mining and real estate speculation. He also worked with a personal secretary, John H. Flood, to write his memoirs, whi...
Who Was Wyatt Earp? American Heritage. The Life of Wyatt Earp. PBS: American Experience. Wyatt Earp. West Adams Heritage Association.
Mar 23, 2018 · The long struggle for law and order in Arizona, which exploded in thirty seconds of deadly gunfire at the O.K. Corral, placed Wyatt Earp among the great Marshals of the Western Frontier. But that famous gunfight has been a matter of controversy ever since 1881.
May 6, 2024 · Wyatt Earp, legendary frontiersman of the American West who was perhaps best known for his involvement in the gunfight with an outlaw gang at the O.K. Corral (1881). He was established as a legend in part by a 1931 biography with which he assisted, though many of the claims were exaggerated or untrue.
