[DogByte6RER]

A great story from the Old West. History belongs to the victors.

I wonder how history would have been written if the Clantons had won the gunfight?

[DogByte6RER]

There is a pretty good write-up of the shootout at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral

[DogByte6RER]

Wyatt Earp at about age 21, photo about 1869

[TMSuchman]

Not bad for a gunfight that lasted about 20 seconds or so.

[doc1019]

Walter Brennan would have had a better career. ;-)

[BallyBill]

“I’m your Huckleberry”

[DogByte6RER]

A revisionist telling of the gunfight from kin of the Clantons...

http://www.clantongang.com/oldwest/gunfight.html

[DogByte6RER]

Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Tom McLaury are buried in Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

[Lijahsbubbe]

What did the Earps and Clantons do in Tombstone when they weren't spoiling for a fight? Why, they partied like you and I, Dude! In this rare photo, Wyatt Earp is seated on the left with a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other. Seated on the right is Dodge City gambler Luke Short. That's Doc Holliday standing behind Wyatt with his arm around Tom McLaury, one of his victims in the OK Corral fight. The tall fellow in the white suit is Ike Clanton. Leaning over is Morgan Earp and the cocky looking kid on the far right is Billy Clanton. Notice how many are wearing party hat

[teeman8r]

i used to have a paintball field and one of my favorite games was the shootout at ok corral... each team of five would have unloaded markers and walk towards each other til they were 25 feet apart... a very noticeably short distance when you know the other guys will be firing at you soon...

re-creations are very close to the actual thing... all heck breaks loose and bodies and paint flew every which way...

before the shooting i would here, ‘we’re way too close’ and ‘let’s go already’ translated to ‘i’m your huckleberry’

hehehe

i miss those games.

teeman

[mass55th]

"I wonder how history would have been written if the Clantons had won the gunfight?"

They would have blamed Bush ;-)

[Alter Kaker]

The Earps were known by another name... "the Fighting Pimps."

The Hollywood movies are a little... off.

[johnny7]

[decimon]

...“the defendants were fully justified in committing these homicides.”

Interesting ruling.