133 years ago today at about 3 p.m. the most famous gunfight of the Old West took place in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. About 30 shots were fired in 30 seconds Oct. 26, 1881 between outlaw cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury, and Town Marshal Virgil Earp, his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp and friend, Doc Holliday. Killed in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral were Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers; Virgil and Morgan Earp were wounded. The gunfight was not well known to the American public until 1931, when author Stuart Lake published a mostly fictional biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, two years after Earps death at 80. It was also the basis for the 1946 film, My Darling Clementine, directed by John Ford. After the movie Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was released in 1957, the showdown became known by that name. Heres the opening of that movie starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday. The theme tune is sung by Frankie Laine, who also belted out the rousing theme song for the television show Rawhide that ran on CBS from 1959-66. youtube/watch?v=ZqyiRwlLa80&feature=related
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:10:11 +0000
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