The “Gunfight in the Vacant Lot—Next to Fly’s—Down the Block From The Rear Entrance to the O.K. Corral.” Nope, won’t work. It wouldn’t fit on a theater marquee. Frankie Lane would never sing the song.
By now it’s a well-known misnomer, but how did it come about? On October 27, 1881 the Nugget wrote: “...at this time Sheriff Behan appeared upon the scene and told Marshal Earp...he would go down to the O.K. Corral, where Ike and Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury were and d
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