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What Led to the O.K. Corral Gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory?

by | Nov 11, 2016 | Ask the Marshall, Departments

What led to the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory? Axel Doling Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany The lead-up is pretty complicated. The Earp brothers and the Cowboys had been tense for several months, disagreeing over local politics, power and law and order. Everything came to a head on October 26, 1881. Cowboy Ike Clanton went around Tombstone, threatening to kill the Earp brothers and John Henry “Doc” Holliday. Marshal Virgil Earp cracked Clanton over the head


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