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The tombstone, Arizona U.S. Marshal's badge reminds the mining town of Tombstone with tiers Boot Hill Cemetery and shootout at the OK Corral. Although history records some shooting with more fighters and a much higher body, the OK Corral shoot-out is recognized by historians as the most famous shootout in the history of the American West.

While Tombstone is quite a metropolitan city for the day and time, its remote location has a secluded location, surrounded by the uninhabited desert with no access railway.

In the 1880s, Tombstone was known as one of the most deadly in the West - thanks to a bitter rivalry between a gang of criminals calling themselves the "Cow-Boys" and businessmen, investors and immigrant children who ran the city and the nearby silver mines.

On October 26, 1881, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the powder keg exploded in a hail of simmering shots that would come to be known as the shootout at the OK Corral. Virgil and Morgan Earp, Wyatt and their brother Gunslinger notorious Doc Holliday, shot with five of the Cow-Boys that included Ike Clanton and his younger brother, Billy, with the McLaury brothers, Frank and Tom and Billy Claiborne.

According to a cut of the epitaph, the famous Tombstone newspaper, the problems began when Ike Clanton was arrested this morning for violating a city ordinance against carrying firearms in city limits of Tombstone.

Virgil Earp was Tombstone City Marshal, and also a Deputy Commissioner for Federal Territory of Arizona. Like many lawyers involved in "town tamer" at that time, the first thing that Virgil had made after taking the job was to ask the council to adopt an ordinance against guns in city limits.

The charge against Clanton this morning was disorderly conduct. It has set up a fight when Virgil asked him to surrender his gun, pistol whipped and was unarmed and a fine of twenty-five dollars. He paid the fine, was released and left the town after swearing to return and avenge the Earp brothers.

difficulty waiting for the cowboys, Virgil had temporarily deputize Wyatt and Wyatt longtime friend, Doc Holliday. True to his word, Clanton returned that afternoon with his brother, Billy, the McLaury brothers and Billy Claiborne in tow. The famous confrontation - including thirty shots were fired in the space of thirty seconds - actually began in yard for William Harwood, which was located just down the street from the back entrance of the OK Corral, and had spilled onto Fremont Street when he finished.

Considering the closeness of the combatants to each other, it was a miracle that only three men died that day. Billy Clanton and both McLaury were killed. Realizing that they would face four men - at least two of them had a fearsome reputation that armed men - instead of two lawyers, they must have planned to put a damper Ike Clanton Billy instant and tempers Claiborne. Claiming to be disarmed, Billy Clanton and Claiborne both ran to the fight, and because they were running, two of them survived.

Wyatt Earp is free, and Doc Holliday received only a couple of near-bullet holes in his coat, but Virgil Earp was shot through the calf, and Morgan received a serious wound to the shoulder. Outnumbered 5 to 2, it is unlikely that Virgil and Morgan Earp had survived the gunfight with the Clanton faction, if Virgil had not deputize Wyatt and Holliday. That did not stop County Sheriff John Behan of support both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday with murder in the incident, however, on the grounds that neither the lawyers were at the time of the shooting. But a grand jury would be twice refused to indict either man, and the charger.