![]() ![]() Pinafore, nightly in historic Schieffelin Hall. The Tombstone Repertory Company will perform Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1878 comic operetta, H.M.S. Costumed visitors in antique buggies and on foot are invited to follow the horse-drawn hearses down Allen Street and pay their respects. Fly.Īt noon on Saturday October 28, a funeral procession for the three cowboys killed in the Gunfight–Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, and Billy Clanton–will be reenacted in Tombstone for the first time. George Goodfellow Tombstone’s founder, Ed Schieffelin Wyatt’s first two wives, Urilla and Mattie and photos of Geronimo with his Apache warriors taken by Tombstone’s photographer, C.S. Photographs on display for the first time include original pictures of Doc Holliday “Old Man” Clanton Tombstone’s “surgeon to the gunfighters,” Dr. Corral signed by the owner, John Montgomery, and tax receipts signed by Wyatt’s rival, Sheriff Johnny Behan. Other documents include an arrest warrant signed by Wyatt, a receipt from the O.K. Corral drawn by Wyatt Earp himself, as well as drawings of Wyatt’s revenge killings of Cowboys Curly Bill Brocious, John Ringo, and Frank Stilwell. For the first time, the public will be able to view the only map of the Gunfight at the O.K. Tombstone Courthouse State Park will host a rare exhibit of Wyatt Earp artifacts. Each day, various confrontations that surrounded the Gunfight, and the Gunfight itself, will be reenacted on the streets of Tombstone. Corral on the exact spot and time of day (2:30 p.m.) as the original Gunfight. On Thursday, October 26, a special reenactment of the Gunfight at the O.K. Attendees will have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to walk where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and McLaurys in the legendary Octogunfight that made Tombstone famous. And other accounts by observers and participants, including several books, are largely self-serving.īut in researching “Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride to Hell,” western historian and former newspaperman Tom Clavin had a lot of additional material to draw on including previous histories of the town and well-researched biographies of many of the participants.On October 26 through 28, 2006, the Old West town of Tombstone, Arizona celebrates the 125th Anniversary of the historic Gunfight at the O.K. Primary sources, including witness testimony in court proceedings and reports in the boomtown’s two rival newspapers, are contradictory and laced with lies. Corral are not the only obstacles facing a writer intent on telling the true story of Tombstone. ![]() Myths surrounding the Earps, Wyatt’s pal Doc Holliday (who was far from the deadeye shot he’s been made out to be), and the gunfight at the O.K. ![]() Marshal, and he remained a lawman for nearly all of his time in Arizona. They were relatively young men–Wyatt, the middle brother, just 31–when they joined a growing community of shopkeepers, prospectors, gamblers, prostitutes, and rustlers drawn by a silver strike in the nearby Dragoon Mountains.Īs some popular accounts, including “Tombstone,” the 1993 movie starring Kurt Russell, would have it, Wyatt and his older brother Virgil had forsaken their previous profession as lawmen, but that’s not exactly true. In 1881, five Earp brothers gathered in hopes of finding their fortunes in Tombstone, Arizona, the last boomtown in what was still left of the untamed American West. ![]()
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