What I like about our Haunted After Hours Radio Show is we have a vehicle to voice our opinions on what we are passion about right at our fingers tips. Were these people Heroes? Or were they just normal people, in some cases just doing their jobs? Suggest A Hero For This List. Corral summary: The O.K. Corral is a term used to refer to an infamous shootout in the American West during the late 1800s between some historical icons. Bat Masterson was born on November 26, 1853, at Henryville, Canada East, in the Eastern Townships of what is Quebec today, and baptized as Bartholomew. It’s 2:55 in the afternoon, you, Wyatt Earp, and three other marshals are sitting inside the O.K. Corral Saloon discussing the latest series of crimes that are blamed. The SPIRIT of the OLD WEST is a website for those who answer the call of the OLD WEST! People interested in the history and artifacts of the Fur Trade, Civil War. Corral. By Casey Tefertiller and Jeff Morey. Cowboy Billy Clanton still lay dying, his face contorted with pain, when the press began the difficult task of piecing together the details of an October 1. Tombstone, Arizona Territory. In later years it would become known as the Gunfight at the O. K. Richard Rule, veteran city editor of the Tombstone Nugget, helped carry Clanton into the house where the young man would pass into history, then returned to the streets to go to work. With the canny eye of an experienced newsman, Rule began collecting the details of the gunfight, interviewing witnesses and trying to get a handle on what transpired during that fateful half minute and what led up to the battle. It would be a model of frontier journalism and vital to future understanding of perhaps the most debated event of the American frontier. The saga of the O. K. Corral has been told repeatedly and from many perspectives, often with fictional intrusions and biased analysis. Now, for the first time in 1. Tombstone — with a great deal of help from Richard Rule. Through the tense summer of 1. Bands of rustlers roamed the backcountry, stealing cattle mostly in Mexico or from Mexican ranchers in Arizona and New Mexico territories and then selling them to apparently legitimate ranchers for resale. The Clanton and Mc. Laury families owned ranches reputed to be headquarters for receiving stolen cattle. This great cattle scam drew little ire from an American population more interested in acquiring wealth in the rich new mining areas than investigating international relations. In addition, Mexico had assessed high taxes on alcohol and tobacco, and smugglers came to southern Arizona Territory to purchase the goods cheaply for resale south of the border. The cash- and jewel- laden smugglers provided an easy target for American bandits. As that fateful year of 1. The Mexican government dropped taxes on alcohol and tobacco and then lodged numerous protests with federal and territorial officials to try to stop the outlawry against Mexican citizens. Territorial Governor John C. Legislators hooted down the visionary plan. The Mexican government built a series of forts along the border and began to fight back against the American outlaws. American rustlers George Turner and Alfred Mc. Allister were killed in Mexico during a raid on May 1. Back on the U. S. Three robbers that day attempted to intercept a stagecoach traveling from Tombstone to Benson, Arizona Territory. Jim Crane, William Leonard and Harry Head were identified as the robbers. With Fr. Cochise County Sheriff John Behan and his deputies were charged with battling the rustlers, who became known as the . His deputy Billy Breakenridge would tell how he deputized Cowboy leader . And Wells, Fargo detective James Hume was quoted as saying, . Deputy Marshals Virgil Earp and Leslie Blackburn, with Earp in charge of most of the fieldwork, backed by his brother and deputy Wyatt Earp. Virgil also served as city marshal of Tombstone, which left Wyatt with most of the federal work. Wyatt Earp coveted Behan’s well- paid job as sheriff, and the election would be coming up in the fall of 1. According to Wyatt, he tried to make a deal with Frank Mc. Laury and Ike Clanton, the most visible of the Clanton brothers and a known friend of the rustling crowd, to tell him the whereabouts of the three stage robbers. This would bolster Earp’s chances in the election, and Ike would receive the reward. Before the deal could be completed, two bartender brothers killed Leonard and Head in a remote New Mexico Territory mining village. An army of Cowboys rode down and killed the brothers in retribution. In August, another cattle raid in Mexico caused Commandant Felipe Neri to dispatch troops to the border, where they found a group of Americans bedded down on the U. S. The Mexicans crept the few feet across the border and opened fire, killing five, among them stage robber Jim Crane and Newman Clanton, scion of the Clanton clan, who left behind sons Ike, Fin and Billy. With no deal left for him, Ike Clanton grew increasingly worried. Wyatt Earp knew Ike had made a deal to turn on his Cowboy buddies, information that could have ruined Ike’s standing in the rustling community. With the borders closed, outlawry against Americans grew more commonplace in the backcountry. The Earps emerged as the leading law officers, taking an aggressive stand against the region’s criminal elements. The Cowboys resented their actions. According to Earp, Ike accused him of telling the secret to his friend John Henry . Earp denied the accusation and sent for Holliday, who was in Tucson. Holliday met with Clanton on the night of October 2. Occidental Saloon. By the Earp account, Holliday was angry that Clanton had made a false accusation against him. As Ike told it, Holliday called him a . Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp appeared to break up the fight, with Wyatt walking Holliday back to his room at Fly’s lodging house. Then came perhaps the most improbable event of the day. Ike Clanton, after retrieving his six- shooter, sat down to a poker game with Virgil Earp, Tom Mc. Laury, John Behan and one other player. The game broke up around 7 a. Ike Clanton requesting that Virgil deliver a message to Holliday: . Virgil said he responded: . I am going down home now to go to bed, and I don? I am in bed.”You won? Ike asked. Virgil said he would not. Through the rest of the morning, Ike fueled his anger with whiskey, lurching from saloon to saloon to talk tough and make threats against the Earps. Deputy Marshal Andy Bronk also heard of the threats and woke Virgil. Injudiciously, both Wyatt and Virgil went back to sleep and ignored Ike’s ire. About noon on the 2. Virgil and Morgan Earp spotted Ike carrying a six- shooter and a rifle. Virgil crashed his revolver into Ike’s head, then led the bloodied Cowboy to Judge Albert O. Wyatt Earp entered the room and said: . You have been threatening our lives, and I know it. I think I would be justified in shooting you down any place I would meet you. But if you are anxious to make a fight, I will go anywhere on earth to make a fight with you — even over to San Simon among your crowd.’. Ike refused, saying he did not like the odds. Wallace fined Ike $2. As Wyatt stepped out of the courtroom, he encountered Tom Mc. Laury and engaged in an argument that led to Earp slapping the cowboy with his left hand, then beating him over the head with a six- shooter. Frank Mc. Laury and Billy Clanton rode into town and stopped at the saloon in the Grand Hotel. Cowboy pal Billy Claiborne told them of the beatings delivered to their brothers, and Frank dropped his whiskey glass without taking a sip. As the afternoon continued, the town grew more and more agitated, buzzing with trepidation that a conflict was brewing. The Earps congregated at the corner of Fourth and Allen, in front of Hafford’s Corner Saloon, and watched as Ike and Billy Clanton, along with Frank Mc. Laury, entered Spangenberg’s gun shop. Frank and Billy purchased ammunition, but the proprietor refused to sell a gun to Ike. The Clantons and Mc. Laurys left the gun shop and split up. The Mc. Laurys went off to make collections for cattle they had sold, while Claiborne and Billy Clanton went to retrieve Billy’s horse. They would meet up again a few minutes later, at the O. K. Corral, where witnesses would overhear them making threats against the Earps. Back at Hafford’s, townsmen came to the Earps offering assistance and telling of the cowboy threats. City Marshal Virgil Earp said he asked Sheriff Behan to assist him in disarming the Cowboys. Instead, Behan offered to go down and talk to the Clantons and Mc. Laurys to see if he could peaceably disarm them by himself. After Virgil had waited nearly 2. Behan to make his talk, local businessman John Fonck came to tell the marshal of the Cowboys? Virgil said he would not interfere if they were getting their horses and leaving town, but if they were armed and walking the streets he would have to arrest them. He handed a short- barreled shotgun to Holliday to conceal under his long gray coat. Holliday then gave his walking stick to the marshal, and the four began the fateful walk that would become part of history. As they strode down Fremont Street, Behan rushed up to them and, according to the Earp brothers, said, . What the sheriff said next is uncertain. Behan would say that he told the Earps, . Wyatt Earp put his six- shooter back in his coat pocket; Virgil shifted his six- shooter off his hip into a more difficult position to draw and held the walking stick in his right hand. When they arrived at the 1. Fremont Street where the Cowboys had congregated, the Earps were surprised to see that at least two of the opposition — Frank Mc. Laury and Billy Clanton — still carried revolvers, and rifles were visible on the horses. Virgil raised his walking stick and growled, . Two shots, a pause, then the gunfight burst out on different fronts. Holliday surged forward to stalk Tom Mc. Laury, partially hidden by a horse, then fired a shotgun charge into Mc. Laury’s chest. At about the same moment, Ike lurched forward to grab Wyatt Earp. Clanton said he heroically tried to push him out of the way. Earp said he told Ike, . Billy Clanton took a bullet in the chest, probably from Morgan, then a shot in the right wrist. He switched gun hands, leaned back against a building and slowly crumpled to the ground as he continued firing. Morgan stumbled and fell, yelling, . He rose, but soon fell again, probably tripping on a mound on Fremont Street where the town was putting in new water pipes. Badly wounded, Frank Mc. Laury tried to use his horse for cover as he lurched into the street. He fired at Morgan, causing his horse to bolt. Unprotected and exhausted, Frank squatted in the street, but when Holliday pursued him, Frank stood, aimed and said, . You? re a daisy if you have,’ Holliday responded, according to the Nugget. Mc. Laury fired, grazing Holliday’s side. Tombstone, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tombstone is a historic western city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1. Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the last wide- open frontierboomtowns in the American Old West. The town prospered from about 1. US$4. 0 to $8. 5 million in silver bullion, the largest productive silver district in Arizona. Its population grew from 1. It is best known as the site of the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral and now draws most of its revenue from tourism. The town was established on a mesa above the Tough Nut Mine. Within two years of its founding, although far distant from any other metropolitan area, Tombstone boasted a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 1. All of these were situated among and on top of a large number of dirty, hardscrabble mines. The gentlemen and ladies of Tombstone attended operas presented by visiting acting troupes at the Schieffelin Hall opera house, while the miners and cowboys saw shows at the Bird Cage Theatre, . The mining capitalists and the townspeople were largely Republicans from the Northern states. Many of the ranchers (some of whom. The booming city was only 3. U. S. They had ongoing conflicts with Ike and Billy Clanton, Frank and Tom Mc. Laury, and other Cowboys members. The Cowboys repeatedly threatened the Earps over many months until the conflict escalated into a confrontation that turned into a shootout on 2. October, 1. 88. 1. The now- famous Hollywood- ized Gunfight is portrayed as occurring at the O. K. Corral, but the actual gun fight was on Fremont Street a block or two away from the O. K. Corral. In the mid- 1. A fire in 1. 88. 6 destroyed the Grand Central hoist and the pumping plant, and it was unprofitable to rebuild the costly pumps. The city nearly became a ghost town, saved only because it was the Cochise County seat until 1. The city's population dwindled to a low of 6. Army headquartered at Camp Huachuca. Schieffelin frequently searched the wilderness looking for valuable ore samples. At the Santa Rita mines in nearby Santa Cruz Valley, three superintendents had been killed by Indians. When friend and fellow Army Scout Al Sieber learned what Schieffelin was up to, he is quoted as telling him, . After many months, while working the hills east of the San Pedro River, he found pieces of silver ore in a dry wash. When he located the vein, he estimated it to be fifty feet long and twelve inches wide. Safford offered financial backing for a share of the mining claim, and Schieffelin, his brother Al, and their partner Richard Gird formed the Tombstone Mining and Milling Company and built a stamping mill. When the mill was being built, U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor Solon M. Allis finished surveying the new town's site, which was revealed on March 5, 1. Lots were immediately sold on Allen Street for $5. The town soon had some 4. At the town's founding in March 1. Schieffelin's initial mining claim. By fall 1. 87. 9, a few thousand hardy souls were living in a canvas and matchstick camp perched amidst the richest silver strike in the Arizona Territory. Telegraph service to the town was established that same month. In early March 1. Schieffelins' Tombstone Mining and Milling Company which owned the Tough Nut Mine, among others, was sold to investors from Philadelphia. At the center, Third St. Most of the Cowboys were Confederate sympathizers and Democrats from Southern states, especially Texas. The mine and business owners, miners, townspeople and city lawmen including the Earps were largely Republicans from the Northern states. There was also the fundamental conflict over resources and land, of traditional, Southern- style, . The Mexican government taxed these items heavily and smugglers earned a handsome profit by sneaking these products across the border. The illegal cross- border smuggling contributed to the lawlessness of the region. Many of these crimes were carried out by outlaw elements labeled . The San Francisco Examiner wrote in an editorial, . Legitimate cowmen were referred to as cattle herders or ranchers. Marshal Sheriff Virgil Earp and his temporary deputies and brothers Wyatt Earp and Morgan Earp pursued the Cowboys suspected of the murders. This set off a chain of events that culminated on October 2. Gunfight at the O. K. Corral, during which the lawmen killed Tom Mc. Laury, Frank Mc. Laury, and Billy Clanton. The gunfight was the result of a personal, family, and political feud. Three months later on the evening of December 2. Virgil Earp was ambushed and seriously wounded on the streets of Tombstone by hidden assailants shooting from the second story of an unfinished building. Although identified, the suspects provided witnesses who supplied alibis, and the men were not prosecuted. On March 1. 8, 1. Morgan Earp was killed by a shot that struck his spine while playing billiards at 1. Once again, the assailants were named but escaped arrest due to legal technicalities. Wyatt Earp, concluding that legal justice was out of reach, led a posse that pursued and killed four of the men they held responsible on what became known as the Earp Vendetta Ride. John Slaughter was elected Cochise County Sheriff in 1. He hired Burt Alford, who as a 1. Earps and Cowboys. Alford served very effectively for three years until he began to drink heavily and began to associate with outlaws. Corral shootout, are among those buried in the town's Boothill Graveyard. Of the number of pioneer Boot Hill cemeteries in the Old West, so named because most of those buried in them had . Ed was one- third partners with his brother Al Schieffelin and Richard Gird. There were several hundred mining claims near Tombstone, although the most productive were immediately south of town. These included the Contention, Grand Central, Lucky Cuss, Emerald, Silver Thread, and Toughnut. Due to the lack of readily available water near town, mills were built along the San Pedro River about 9 miles (1. Charleston, Contention City, and Fairbank. It would later yield millions in silver. They sold a half- interest in the Lucky Cuss, and the other half turned into a steady stream of money. Al and Ed Schieffelin later sold their two- thirds interest in the Tough Nut for US$1 million, and sometime later Gird sold his one- third interest for the same amount. The Tombstone mines produced 3. Arizona. Other estimates include USD $4. Renewed mining is planned for the area. Between 1. 88. 0 and 1. As a result, lawyers began to settle in Tombstone and became even wealthier than the miners and those who financed the mining. In the end, a thorough mapping of the area was completed by experts which resulted in maps documenting Tombstone's mining claims better than any other mining district of the West. One man could pull out ore equal to what three men produced elsewhere. Tombstone's first newspaper, the Nugget, was established in the fall of 1. The Tombstone Epitaph was founded on May 1, 1. As the fastest growing boomtown in the American Southwest, the silver industry and attendant wealth attracted many professionals and merchants who brought their wives and families. With them came churches and ministers. They brought a Victorian sensibility and became the town's elite. Many citizens of Tombstone dressed well, and up- to- date fashion could be seen in this growing mining town. The men who worked the mines were largely European immigrants. The Chinese did the town's laundry and provided other services. The Cowboys ran the countryside and stole cattle from haciendas across the international border in Sonora, Mexico. When the railroad was not built into Tombstone as had been planned, the increasingly sophisticated city of Tombstone remained relatively isolated, deep in a Federal territory that was largely an unpopulated desert and wilderness. Tombstone and its surrounding countryside also became known as one of the deadliest regions in the West. Water was hauled in until the Huachuca Water Company, funded in part by investors like Dr. Goodfellow, built a 2. Huachuca Mountains in 1. No sooner was a pipeline completed than Tombstone's silver mines struck water. On June 2. 2, 1. 88. The fire began when a lit cigar ignited a barrel of whiskey in the Arcade Saloon. The mining itself was carried out by immigrants from Europe, chiefly Cornwall, Ireland and Germany. The approximately 6,0. Tombstone generated more than $1. On December 2. 5, 1. Bird Cage Theatre opened on Allen Street, offering the miners and Cowboys their kind of bawdy entertainment. In 1. 88. 2, The New York Times reported that . The prostitutes worked the saloons on the south side and in the southeast quarter of the town, as far as possible from the proper residential section north of Fremont Street. At the height of the town's boom, the official population reached about 1. The blaze destroyed most of the western half of the business district. On May 2. 5, 1. 88. Chinese laundry on Fifth Street between Toughnut and Allen streets. It destroyed the Grand Hotel and the Tivoli Saloon before it jumped Fremont Street, destroying more than 1. Lacking enough water to put out the flames, buildings in the fire's path were dynamited to deny the fire fuel. Total damages were estimated to be USD $7. But rebuilding started right away nonetheless. In March 1. 88. 1, the Sulphuret Mine struck water at 5. A year later, in March 1. Grand Central Mine hit water at 6. The flow wasn't at first large enough to stop work, but experienced miners thought the water flow would increase, and it did. Soon constant pumping with a 4 inches (1. The silver ore deposits they sought were soon underwater. They talked about options for draining the mines, and found the only system available for pumping water out of mines below 4. Cornish engine which had been used at the Comstock Lode in the 1. By mid- February 1. US gallons (2,1. 80,0.
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