O.K. Corral | Historical Site, Tombstone, Arizona, United States

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  • In Tombstone

    …the gun battle at the O.K. Corral in 1881 between the Earp and Clanton families. The boom days quickly ended in 1911 with floodwaters in the mines, labour strikes, and low silver prices. Tombstone was the county seat from 1881 to 1931. Now a tourist centre, it retains a pioneer…

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• Earp
  • In Wyatt Earp

    …the celebrated gunfight at the O.K. Corral (October 26, 1881), pitting the Clanton gang against three Earp brothers (Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan) and Doc Holliday. Three of the outlaws were killed, but Ike and another member escaped. Although the shoot-out, which allegedly lasted only 30 seconds, later made Wyatt famous,…

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• Holliday
  • In Doc Holliday

    …the celebrated gunfight at the O.K. Corral against the Clanton gang. From then (1881) on, he was again a drifter (having abandoned Kate Elder), and he died five years later in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where he had gone for treatment of his tuberculosis.

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