Were all the witnesses at the Spicer Hearing sworn in?
Tom Betts
Anaheim, California
Some 30 witnesses testified at the Spicer Hearing inquest into the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. That doesn’t mean they all told the truth.
Ike Clanton swore he was not out gunning for the Earp Gang when practically the whole town had seen him walking the streets, telling all who would listen how he was going to kill the lawmen.
Railroad engineer H.F. Sills was the most impor

True West December 2018
In This Issue:
Features
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Southern Prairie and Plains
- Death at his Elbow
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Northern Prairie and Plains
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Great Basin and Rocky Mountains
- Betting on the Baby on the Bar
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Desert Southwest
- Doc Gets Hammered
- Manipulated into His Own Death
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: The Pacific Coast
- True West’s Ultimate Historic Travel Guide: Eat, Drink and Sleep Where History Happened
- Battle-Tested in the Rockies
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- Were all the Witnesses at the Spicer Hearing Sworn in?
- What History Has Taught Me: John Boessenecker
- Cochise, Cowboys and Cavalry
- The Black Father of Fort Worth
- Doc Gets Hammered
- Kingsville, Texas
- What’s the History of Yuma, Arizona?
- Tombstone 25—A Western Classic’s Reunion
- Norman Rockwell’s Duke
- Raised from the Dead
- How did Old West Pioneers Acquire Honorific Titles?
- A Thirst for Destruction
- The Boss Drink
- What History Has Taught Me: Myron R. Deibel
- Did Virginia City, Nevada, ever have any Notable Gunmen?