Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The Wild West's most famous gunfight lasted 30 seconds
On 26 October 1881 the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday faced a gang of Cowboys in Tombstone. About thirty shots were fired in thirty seconds, and not at the O.K. Corral at all but in a narrow lot by a photo studio, six doors from its rear entrance.
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Samurai and cowboys were contemporaries: the samurai's last stand at Shiroyama came in September 1877, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral just four years later, in 1881. Share →
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