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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 136. Chapters: Tucson, Arizona, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cochise County, Arizona, Tombstone, Arizona, Bisbee, Arizona, Benson, Arizona, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Josephine Earp, Johnny Behan, Thomas Fitch, Earp Vendetta Ride, Virgil Earp, Bat Masterson, Arizona Territory, Johnny Ringo, Ike Clanton, William Brocius, Frank Stilwell, Charleston, Arizona, Newman Haynes Clanton, Big Nose Kate, Franklin Leslie, Contention City, Arizona, Morgan Earp, List of Old West gunfighters, Pete Spence, John Clum, Luke Short, Warren Earp, Mattie Blaylock, The Tombstone Epitaph, Earp family, Guadalupe Canyon Massacre, Fred White, James Earp, Billy Claiborne, Boot Hill, Sherman McMaster, Burt Alvord, Skeleton Canyon Massacre, Dragoon Mountains, Ed "Big Ed" Burns. Excerpt: The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a roughly 30-second gunfight that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Cochise County, of the United States. Frank and Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton were killed; Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday were wounded and survived. It is generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the Old West and has come to represent a time in American history when the frontier was open range for outlaws who were confronted by law enforcement that was often sparse, or nonexistent. The gunfight was relatively unknown to the American public until 1931 when author Stuart Lake published what has since been determined to be a largely fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, two years after Wyatt's death. Lake retold his story in a 1946 book that director John Ford developed into the movie My Darling Clementine. After the movie Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was released in 1957, the shootout came to be known by that name. Since then, the conflict has been portrayed with varyi...
