Wyatt Earp Guns - The Untold Story of the OK Corral

The Untold Story - Showdown The OK Corral

In 1881 a feud developed between the Earps and the Clanton gang, resulting in the celebrated gunfight at the OK Corral. The fight was a prearranged duel between two gangs that wanted control of Tombstone, beginning with Ike Clanton hurling a challenge at the Earps to meet him and his gang at the OK corral. Guns were drawn and shots were fired, the first shot coming from the volatile Doc Holliday.

The shootout was over in 30 seconds, which is one-tenth the time it took to show the sequence in the 1957 film Gunfight at the OK Corral. Contrary to the movies’ depiction that Doc Holliday died at the OK Corral, he breathed his last breath on his sickbed six years after the shoot-out and fourteen years after his doctor had told him he would die of tuberculosis. The only ones who met their ends at the OK Corral were Frank and Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton, all belonging to the Clanton Gang, and those wounded were Holliday and Virgil and Morgan Earp. The name ‘Gunfight at the OK Corral’ is presumably a reminder of where the famous showdown between Wyatt Earp’s group and the Clanton gang was held, but it’s misleading.

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