The posse rides out to arrest Wyatt and his men for the murder of Frank Stilwell. Both parties were surprised, and gunfire started almost immediately. Curly Bill shot at Wyatt but missed. Wyatt returned the fire and hit Bill in the chest with a shotgun blast, killing him instantly. In the chaos that ensued, Wyatts posse were pinned down by the Cowboy gunfire.
Wyatt, still standing in the middle of the fight, without cover, shot Johnny Barnes in the chest and Milt Hicks in the arm. Wyatt was then able to get back on his horse and retreat. Incredibly, he was shot seven times through his clothes, but not one shot injured Earp. Near the end of April, the posse split up, and Wyatt and Doc left the lawless territory behind permanently. Western Mining History. Log In. Before moving to Tombstone, he faced a series of lawsuits alleging that he stole money and falsified court documents.
He was also arrested for stealing a horse and escaped from jail before his trial. Later, he was arrested and fined for frequenting brothels. Rumors were abound that he was a pimp. Earp tried to turn things around for himself and got a job on the police force in Wichita, Kansas.
However, he was fired after getting into a fistfight. Luckily for him, it was pretty easy to wipe the slate clean for yourself in those days. He could simply pack his bags and head to a new town like Tombstone, where he could start with a fresh reputation. Yup, the dramatic confrontation that left three men dead and three wounded lasted less than a minute.
In that span, around 30 shots were fired. The movie Gunfight at the O. Corral dramatized the shootout, showing the men heavily armed and engaged in a fight that spanned minutes.
In reality, each man carried only a revolver apiece and in the confusion, nobody could be sure who fired the fatal shots. You would think the people of Tombstone would regard the Earps as their heroes for driving out the outlaws. Not so. Another bullet barely missed Wyatt. Although Will McLaury had long since left Tombstone for his home in Fort Worth, he was still suspected of being involved.
Morgan died at the age of 30 within the hour. John "Doc" Holliday was a private citizen -- dentist, gambler, drunkard, and gunfighter. With tuberculosis and a deathwish, Holliday came to Tombstone with a trunk full of reputations.
He had made dozens of enemies by the time he got there and one friend; Wyatt Earp, whose life he had once saved. He was asked by Virgil to help disarm the Clantons. But as the Cowboy side of the streetfight story has it that Holliday and Morgan were first to draw. If Tom really had been unarmed at the fight, it can be said that Doc Holliday was the only murderer of the day.
Armament: He was hiding a shotgun under his coat and carried a Colt. A bullet grazed his hip. Through the early months of , the Clantons continued to rustle cattle from Mexico, a crime that the Earp lawmen could do nothing about. Their hands were tied since cattle rustling was officially a county matter and John Behan was the county.
The gap between the law and the outlaw faction grew wider and the town divided into two camps. While most of Tombstone's citizens supported the Earps, the politically strong outlaw element, with Behan in control, supported the Clantons.
Born: Ca. Craven coward or rough-and-tumble roustabout? Certainly, he was the final catalyst in the events that led to the shootout. The Clanton family moved to the Tombstone area in Armament: Unarmed. His Winchester carbine and Colt. During the Gunfight: The unarmed Ike Clanton briefly grappled with Wyatt as he ran away from the fight into the front door of Fly's Boardinghouse, he continued running through Fly's back door all the way to a dance hall on Allen Street.
He lived on a ranch built by his father "Old Man" Clanton who had arrived in the area in or 69 on the San Pedro River about 5 miles shouth of Charleston, and about 14 miles SW from Tombstone. After the Gunfight: Ike managed to dodge Earp bullets during the gunfight and Wyatt's ride of revenge afterwards.
But he wasn't able to dodge a bullet given to him by deputy marshall Jonas V. Brighton on June 1, , six years later. Ike Clanton died at the age of He is currently on a drive to have the body exhumed and placed next to his father and brother in Tombstone's Boothill Cemetery.
The youngest of the Clanton boys. Billy has been known as a hard worker and a big, loutish figure. He wasn't innocent young man by any stretch of the word; he was caught by Wyatt Earp in posession of of Wyatt's stolen horse. By most accounts, Billy was trying to get his brother out of Tombstone the day of the shootout. During the Gunfight: When the shooting started, Billy did not back down from the renoun gunfighters and lawmen.
Billy shouted, "Don't shoot me But after being shot in the chest by Morgan Earp, Billy was the only cowboy to inflict any real damage on the Earps.
He shot Virgil in the leg and Morgan in the shoulder, despite being badly wounded in the chest and having his right arm broken with by a shot to his wrist forcing him to continue shooting left handed.
Even after the fight had ended, he continued to plead for more bullets from C. Fly for more bullets even after the fight finished. In great pain, he was carried, as was Tom McLaury, to a building on the corner of Fremont and Third streets. Billy lies in Boothill with Frank and Tom one side and his father on the other. Frank McLaury or "Rob", as the family called him was the number eight child and number five son.
Robert was only 11 days older than Wyatt Earp. Like Wyatt, he was of the generation of boys that just missed the "glory" of the Civil War. Unlike Wyatt, Rob remained at his father's home well into his twenties.
In the mid 's, sixty-something Robert Houston took a second wife who was two years younger than Rob. Apparently, about this time and for possibly said reasons, Robert stopped using his given name and began using a more modern variation of his middle name, "Frank". When the McLaurys arrived in the Tombstone in they lived on a ranch near Soldier's Hole in the Sulphur Springs Valley near the Mexican border along what was called "rustler's trail". This trail started near the Clanton Ranch, and was used to move stolen cattle to and from Mexico.
Wyatt mentioned this in testimony as the reason for shooting at Frank first. Another account speaks of piles of cartridges used in target practice found on the McLaury ranch.
Although gutshot, Frank was able to regroup enough to hit Morgan and clip Holliday. Hear actor Vincent Price narrate this exciting multimedia history of Tombstone from Geronimo's Apaches to modern times.
The Historama Theater is located next door to the O. Admission included with your O. Corral ticket. Visit the s museum of Arizona's oldest newspaper. Read the original reports of the Gunfight at the O. A reprint of the Epitaph with the original Gunfight reports is included free with your O. Corral admission ticket.
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