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Gunfight Behind the OK Corral

July 2016 Bob Boze Bell

Illustration by Bob Boze Bell

On a blustery October day in 1881 Tombstone, the Earp brothers—Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan—joined Doc Holliday in an attempt to disarm several cowboys. The misdemeanor arrest went awry and the subsequent shoot-out became one of the most legendary and controversial events in the West’s history.

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In 1999, Bob Boze Bell and partners bought True West magazine (published since 1953) and moved the editorial offices to Cave Creek, Arizona. Bell has published and illustrated books on Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, as well as Classic Gunfights, an Old West gunfight book series. His latest books are The 66 Kid and True West Moments.