How a failed arrangement helped lead to Tombstone’s street fight.
June 2, 1881. Wyatt Earp approaches Cowboy Ike Clanton with a proposal. If Clanton will betray the men who tried to rob the Benson stage–and allow Earp to make the arrest–Wyatt will give Ike the $3600 reward.
Wyatt hopes the capture will catapult him into the sheriff’s office. But it all falls apart when the three suspects are killed that summer.
Ike accuses Wyatt of spilling the beans about the deal–endangering Clanton with his fellow Cowboys. Earp denies it. But it’s another factor in the growing rift between the Earps/Holliday and the Cowboys.
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