Gunfight at O.K. Corral: Lawmen Meet Outlaws in Legend
Thirty seconds. Thirty shots. The men stood six feet apart in a vacant lot next to a photography studio—not at the O.K. Corral, despite what every movie would later claim. Wyatt Earp walked away without a scratch while his brothers bled. Nobody cared until 1931, when a writer published a mostly fictional biography two years after Wyatt died. The Depression-era public wanted heroes. They got a legend that never happened where everyone thinks it did.
October 26, 1881
145 years ago
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