| O.K. Corral Gun Fight Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday
O. K. Corral Gun fight
The place was Tombstone, Arizona territory, the time was Wednesday afternoon, October 26, 1881 and the setting was a vacant lot in the vicinity of the stables and sheds of the O. K. Corral. But the frightened horses landed the O. K. corral as the name forever to be remembered by the showdown
The showdown occurred with Morgan, Virgil and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday being on one side and on the other side were Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, Billy Claiborne, and Wes Fuller. The O. K. Corral Gun fight lasted 30 seconds, Frank McLaury was dead from a bullet wound to the stomach fired by Wyatt Earp's gun, Tom McLaury dead from Doc Holliday's shotgun, and Billy Clanton dying from chest wounds
Wes Fuller wasn't present for the O. K. Corral Gun fight. Ike Clanton retreated into a shop the second the bullets started flying followed close behind by Billy Claiborne. Morgan Earp fell with a shoulder wound, Virgil with a leg wound, and Doc Holliday with a grazed left hip. Wyatt Earp remained unscathed by the gun fight
At the time, these key players had no idea that they had just been involved in the most famous gun fight in the history of the wild and wicked West. Even a hundred years later, it would still be a movie maker calling card.
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