The Tombstone shoot-out at the OK Corral was Oct. 26, 1881

[liberalnurse]

How fitting for today to be Indictment Day.


http://www.americanwest.com/pages/okfight.htm

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After the Cowboys had threatened to kill Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, and Doc if they didn't get out of Tombstone, the whole town watched to see the outcome. They knew that the Earps and Doc would not run. On October 26, 1881, Virgil received word that the Cowboys were gathering at the O.K. Corral, and that they were armed, which was against city law. Doc met the Earps on Fourth Street on their way to the O.K. Corral and demanded that he be allowed to join them in their little walk. Five men, potential killers, lay in wait. When Wyatt Earp and Billy Clanton opened the battle, Doc shot Billy in the chest, then cut Tom McLaury down with a double charge of buckshot. The life was blasted from McLaury before he struck the ground. Although, Wyatt allowed Ike Clanton to run from the fight scene, Holliday was not so generous. He threw two shots at Ike as he fled, missing him narrowly. A bullet from Frank McLaury cut into Doc's pistol holster and burned a painful crease across his hip. Doc's return shot smashed into McLaury's brain.

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[noahmijo]

1. Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers you gotta give it to

them. They were actually badass guys who did deal out some actual justice.

I'm also quite fond of Wild Bill Hickock.

Closest people to "cowboys" that I'll ever respect.

If you ever get to go to Tombstone and see the renactment it's really cool and accurate the way they portray it.

The guy who plays Wyatt Earp likes to boast about how he's from Kennenbunkport Maine and "yes folks that is indeed where Ol Bushie got his DUI charge." :)

[liberalnurse]

2. I indeed have been there.......

It was a day to embrace history and childhood memories. My cousin Dale and I use to play western characters as children, I was Annie Oakley and he was Wyatt Earp......

He later became Bush 41's #1 Secret Service agent....now self employed.

http://www.axissecurity.com/