Tombstone: The Earps, the Cowboys, and the OK Corral
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This week Jamie and Leo dig into the full story before the smoke cleared: who the Earps were and how they ended up in Tombstone, who the Clantons and McLaurys were and why they couldn't leave well enough alone, and how a dentist from Georgia named Doc Holliday became the most feared man in the Arizona Territory.
On October 26th, 1881, in a narrow vacant lot behind the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, thirty shots rang out in thirty seconds. Three men were dead. The most famous gunfight in American history was over almost before it started.
But the gunfight didn't start that day. It started years earlier, in saloons, in cattle rustling and stagecoach robberies. Northern businessmen and Southern cowboys were fighting for control of everything.
Fair warning: we also spend an unreasonable amount of time talking about the 1993 film Tombstone. No apologies. Val Kilmer is a national treasure and we will die on that hill.
Serious history. Told not so seriously.
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