A missing handwritten transcript from a coroner's inquest done after the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral has resurfaced in a dusty box more than 125 years after the most famous shootout in Wild West history.
I've got a daughter who lives on a piece of property next door (out in the woods...) to one of the Clanton Gang descendents. She tells me that they regularly go around their property shooting off their weapons and "marking" their territory (apparently making sure that anyone knows that they're "loaded and ready" ... LOL ...).
And, by the way, it would appear that the descendents of the Clanton gang dispute some of the history that has come down about the Gunfight at the OK Corral and say that it was the Earps who were the criminals... :-)
Do you know anything about the Clantons out in New Mexico way? :-)
That story about the Clantons is somehow ... comforting ... in a “some things never change” sense.
I thought you said CLINTON gang!
From what I’ve read the Clantons were scum but the Earps were no angels either.
And that gunfight didn’t make heroes of them. What made them heroes was Wyatt living long enough to pitch his life story to Hollywood and to tell his version of the story to John Ford. He even drew Ford a map. I’ve always wondered if it was Wyatt or Ford who called it The GUNFIGHT AT THE OKAY CORRAL when it actually took place in a vacant lot next door. I doubt GUNFIGHT IN THE VACANT LOT would have sold very well.
Apparently his version was the true one since they were acquitted of murder charges.