![]() The Earp brothers were known as strong, even ruthless, in their attempts to impose law on the town of Tombstone. Doc Holliday, a former dentist from Georgia who had become a gambler and a gunfighter, was a good friend of Wyatt’s – Holliday had even saved Wyatt’s life a few years earlier. Joining Wyatt in Tombstone were his brothers Morgan and Virgil, who was the town marshal. Wyatt Earp was a former Kansas police officer who was working as a security guard at bank. The Earp brothers had come to Tombstone to try to impose order on the town. While many of these people came to mine the silver or to just find jobs, there were also those who came to rob, steal and murder. Silver had been discovered nearby, bringing droves of people into this once quiet desert town. The small town of Tombstone, Arizona was no different than many other places in the Wild West. Thus, murder, robberies, and violence were a part of life in the towns of the American West. ![]() The towns themselves often didn’t have enough money to pay for police departments, which meant that criminals could run rampant. While there were plenty of chances to make a lot of money, there was also quite a bit of danger in the Wild West since police were few and far between. Prescious metals such as gold and silver had been discovered in the west, and with these discoveries came stories of people who struck it rich overnight. Searching for new opportunities and maybe even the chance to strike it rich, people began to head west to states such as Arizona, Colorado and California. Many people living in the population centers of the east coast and the south – cities such as New York, Boston, and Atlanta – struggled to find work and to make ends meet. Civil War in 1865, the economy hit a slump. Wild West: Land of Opportunity and ChaosĪfter the end of the U.S. Even though it was not famous at the time, the gunfight eventually came to symbolize the battle between chaos and order in the “Wild West” of the United States. The fight itself lasted all of 30 seconds and in the aftermath three of the participants were killed. It took place in the town of Tombstone, Arizona on October 26 th, 1881. Corral was a gunfight between two rival groups, with Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers on one side and the Clanton and the McLaury brothers on the other side. Drawing on new material from private collections-including diaries, letters, and Wyatt Earp's own hand-drawn sketch of the shootout's conclusion-as well as archival research, Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what actually happened that day in Tombstone and why.The shootout at the O.K. ![]() It's a colorful story-but the truth is even better. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a frontier populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. ![]() On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. ![]() A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about. ![]()
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