On Wyatt Earp’s arrival in Tombstone in the 1993 movie Tombstone, the preening and corrupt Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan bragged about the town’s fashionable citizens. Behan personified the duplicitous nature of the silver-mining boomtown: well-dressed, but of dubious virtue.
Like the residents of its legendary namesake, the movie Tombstone was stylish and took liberties with the story of the O.K. Corral gunfight. The film retells the troubles Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday encount
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