TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA the Town too tough to Die. Home to Boothill Cemetery and the OK Corral shoot-out. Every year Tombstone celebrates its past and holds Wyatt Earp Days during which folks dress in period clothes and compete while celebrating the past.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tombstone (probably in 1881).jpg
Tombstone in 1881
Date October 26, 1881
Location Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States
Participants Virgil, Morgan, and Wyatt...
more »TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA the Town too tough to Die. Home to Boothill Cemetery and the OK Corral shoot-out. Every year Tombstone celebrates its past and holds Wyatt Earp Days during which folks dress in period clothes and compete while celebrating the past.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Tombstone (probably in 1881).jpg
Tombstone in 1881
Date October 26, 1881
Location Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States
Participants Virgil, Morgan, and Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday vs.
Tom and Frank McLaury, Billy and Ike Clanton, and Billy Claiborne
Outcome Virgil and Morgan wounded, Holliday grazed; Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed
Deaths 3
O.K. Corral gunfight
Principal events
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral O.K. Corral hearing and aftermath Earp Vendetta Ride
Lawmen
Virgil Earp Wyatt Earp Morgan Earp Doc Holliday
Outlaw Cowboys
Ike Clanton Billy Clanton Tom McLaury Frank McLaury Billy Claiborne
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The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a 30-second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American Wild West. The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud, with Cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury on one side and town Marshal Virgil Earp, Special Policeman Morgan Earp, Special Policeman Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday on the other side. All three Earp brothers had been the target of repeated death threats made by the Cowboys, who objected to the Earps' interference in their illegal activities. The four law men faced five Cowboys. Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed. Ike Clanton claimed that he was unarmed and ran from the fight, along with Billy Claiborne and Wes Fuller. Virgil, Morgan, and Doc Holliday were wounded, but Wyatt Earp was unharmed. The shootout has come to represent a period of the American 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.
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