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I love how at every possible moment, the universe conspired to NOT have a shootout that day. Doc Holiday didn't get angry until they told him NOT to fight. The cowboys were on their way out of town when they were _stopped in the process of leaving._ Things would've literally been fine if The Law had just sat this one out.
It’s entirely possible that the cowboys were gearing up not to leave town but to go out on a posse to kill Holiday and that Holiday being there when the lawmen showed up just expedited the fight. For all we know if the lawmen hadn’t shown up Holiday could’ve been dead and the cowboys could’ve fled.
The lawmen were told the cowboys were getting ready to attack, and acted accordingly. Maybe that was the case, or maybe they were given bad info. Considering the type of behaviour cowboys passing through Tombstone were generally known for, I think fight was more likely than flight, but we’ll never know for certain. Not sure about Docs decision to raise the shotgun instead of keeping it at low ready or port though; could arguably be a deterrent or escalation.
Exactly, these kind of situations make for some dark humor entertainment for people unrelated to the event (aka. us viewers from more than a century in the future). I sometimes feel like a higher being eating popcorn and enjoying in cruel glee while watching these kind of events in history unfold, because of how foolish all the people involved were (one reason why I love Extra History, they are making history not only understandable but enjoyable). Keep in mind I only feel this way for specific events where only a small number of people were affected (I mean anything that doesn't involve lots of innocent people being killed or worse)
iiirc one reason why the Earps and Holliday were released was because they spared Ike Clanton, the man who started this whole mess, on account of him not having a weapon, thus giving a strong argument that they were acting in defense.
Spicer mentioned that on his decision. Ike claimed that as he ran he heard one or two shots whizzing past him. Even if that is not true, Wyatt's gun went off when Ike had him by the arm. And likely that was Wyatt trying to get Ike off of him. Ike was very lucky that day. But Spicer was also not interested in the fact that Tom McLaury was unarmed. And he said that he believed the Earps fired first. To Spicer, it was probably a matter of him thinking the deaths of three cowboys was something good for Tombstone. It was probably also a matter of supporting the law enforcement officials to give the image of being united so as not to be ram over by the local outlaw element.
Tombstone is definitely my favorite retelling of this story, though I have a soft spot for the particularly awful episodes of 60s Doctor Who and Star Trek that do the same.
@@Voreten He definitely played a great Virgil. But let's face it. Some people are BORN to be in Westerns. Sam Elliott was just one of those lucky basterds.
@@KasumiRINA We have Nothing, Colorado City [might I remind you WE AREN'T COLORADO. WHY DO WE HAVE A COLORADO CITY?], Willcox, Winkelman, Young, Bagdad, Why, Date, Three Way, Wagon Wheel, Scenic, the list goes on and on and it's so funny to me. Why are we like this.
"We need a cool-headed person to hold the shotgun...here, Doc, you take it" - Just a genius move. The movies make such hay of this being a righteous duel, when it was basically a dumb gang war that escalated.
To be fair from the video, he only shot once Tom took out his gun and was not the first to shoot. Though he was the first to aim his gun forward, probably instigating the fight.
The idea of a gunslinging cowboy being a hollywood advisor is something that my brain is still struggling to wrap its head around. EDIT: Yeesh, they're not cowboys, I get it. You know what I meant, and you get my point.
@@misternibbles7426 Yep, our modern-day adulation of cowboys is all due to...Hollywood Westerns. Back in the Wild West they were viewed kinda the way we view carnies today; as grungy and shady at best, as small-time crooks at worst. You could perhaps compare this to how comic book adaptations and superheroes are the most lucrative movie genre, whereas arguably before the genre really started taking off with the 1978 movie of Superman, comic books were viewed by the establishment as lowbrow, immature trash.
Having lived in Southern Arizona for 2 decades, the Tombstone gun fight/stunt show is super awesome, and the town gives off a colonenial willamsburg vibe. It a nice place to visit even though its a little expensive
@@ajdynon The First Doctor's outfit actually looks reasonable for the era, while his companions decide to dress up in something out of "Annie Get Your Gun" and look completely out of place. And of course, people kidnap/threaten his companions since they think the "Doctor" they're talking about is Doc Holliday...
Morgan Earp was actually shot in Willcox, Arizona--a ranching town about 40 miles further east. There is now a winery in the corner of the street where Morgan was gunned down--a change in Arizona culture to be sure!
It's so interesting to hear your version of the events after hearing it so often from Hollywood. Apparently my family are descendants of the Earps! On their sister's side at least. So it's nice to hear about this! Thank you for your telling of the history, EH folks!
Love the episode and as always great content! I find it funny that for so much of his own lifetime Wyatt was known far more for a call he made while refereeing a boxing match which most think was fixed, so much so that a somewhat common phrase at the time in newspapers was saying someone "pulled and Earp" when they were seen as not being on the level.
Minor note, typically with Gaelic-based surnames that include Mc/Mac/etc in the initials, for example with the McLaury's you would usually do it like FMcL(for Frank McLaury).
Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai!
Video series idea: I know you guys are not fond of just doing a series on a war but Switzerland is under represented in most media. I mean, when was that you've heard of Louis Wyrsch? Plus, their uniforms in the napoleonic wars were just awesome (especially the grenadiers). Also, this video was great and it just shows how even a 2 part series can have a compelling and all around good narrative. Love to see your team making good work 😎
Side note: at the battle of Berezina 1,300 Swiss soldiers held out against 40,000 Russians. The swiss managed to hold and killed 25,000 Russians! All while covering for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow simultaneously!
MY brain, meanwhile, goes: "Ah, the Cowboys... They must be kicking off against their staunchest rivals, the New York Giants. Probably be a good game, as usual..."
I have been to Tombstone on multiple occasions, and have thus seen the reenactment many times, and even with all that and listening to all the history talks there around it, I didn't know a good deal about this bit of history that you have shown in this. I have also seen the statues of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in Tucon at the historic train depot, commemorating the shootout and later vendetta ride and resulting shootout at said depot. So you can literally trace parts of this history visibly across Southern Arizona from watching the shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone to seeing the statues of the shootout in Tucson. The depot is only a modest walk from the downtown history museum and Hotel Congress where you can see where John Dillinger actually was arrested and learn about how all that went down (and how he later escaped in IL, much to the annoyance of Tucson officials).
Last Spring I visited Arizona, and one of my biggest regrets was not making it to Tombstone. I got as far as Tucson for the Pima Air Museum, and that was it.
The funny thing is that Doc always thought he was going to die in a shootout or some other fight... He died in bed instead. His last words are allegedly: "Damn, this is funny."
It's always wild to me that when Western genre movies and tv were at their height (50s and 60s) the events portrayed were still within living memory and that the wild west period (1880s) was contemporary with patents for coaxial cable, solar cells and automobiles.
Ahhh Tombstone. Gotta love Arizona, it's where all the real cowboy stuff happened! I'm curious, you guys have any plans to do any other Arizona stuff? Lots of stories to tell from here!
6:58 Well, I doubt that they counted the bullets at that moment....the most accurate number would be "more than normal". Its more interesting that they went against mostly unarmed men.
A fun fact, Glen Wyatt Earp III played Billy Claiborne in 1993's Tombstone and is a 5th cousin of the actual Wyatt Earp. There's also a clip from a game show here on TH-cam where the famous Earps half nephew also named Virgil Earp (their older half brother Newton named his two eldest sons after his younger half brothers Virgil & Wyatt) appeared on in 1958. The show was called _The $64,000 Question._
Tombstone Arizona was a very fun place to visit. It was cheap and entertaining. Basically you just walk around and find a reasonable place to have lunch. I would go back again if I still lived in arizona.
Im surprised that william “curly bill” Brocious wasn’t mentioned, he was the leader of the “cowboys” gang, and apparently his death as portrayed in 1993’s “Tombstone” is completely accurate to witness reports
Not exactly accurate. In Range has a video on it, but it wasn't an ambush. More like Wyatt and his group going to a spring and Curly Bill and his group were already there. However, Wyatt braving multiple shots and not being hit at all, and cutting Curly Bill in half was accurate.
I did firearms training when I was enrolled in a private security academy, and they teach you that, in a gunfight, the first thing you have to do is seek cover. Don't just stand there blasting away, find something heavy to get behind first. But then they taught us about the gunfight at the OK Corral, and how Wyatt Earp was the only participant to not get shot. Why? Because he stood completely still while he blasted away, while all of his companions were jumping and running around. Thus their movements caught the Cowboys' eyes, and they shot at them. Whereas, since Wyatt stayed motionless, he didn't attract as much attention to himself, and he therefore went unnoticed and unshot. So the lesson they taught us was, in a Gunfight, always find cover and get behind it... Or don't! Sometimes it's better not to...
Minus 2 cool points for failure to mention "Spectre of the Gun" from Star Trek TOS among the adaptations. That episode was my first and only exposure to the OK Corral story for many years, and for those who haven't seen it, the Earps and Holliday are portrayed as straight-up nasty villains in that. I was an adult before I caught on that Wyatt Earp was an American icon in the heroic vein, generally speaking.
My only note is the fact that Sheriff Behan and his part was not mentioned. How he told the Earps that he had “taken care of the situation” and disarmed the Cowboys.
You know I have to look this up again because I could have sworn that Billy Clanton had at least 16 bullets in his body when he was killed. I guess I have to find that again.
Just so you know.... If you do go to Tombstone... Stop by to see one of the biggest and oldest known living rose bush in the world. Can't say when it was planted exactly or the exact name and location myself, I do know it is a variety of Scottish Highland miniature that covers about a quarter of an acre roughly....
It was an amazing thing. It was planted in 1885 and as of 2022, had a trunk circumference of about 13 feet. It was just weirdly idyllic standing underneath it. Utterly beautiful.
Also, interesting to note in regards to Hollywood; at least two Irish Civil War Generals went on to become film producers in America, including Emmet Dalton, the man who was beside Michael Collins when he was assassinated!
Plot twist: The actual shootout happened closer to Fly's Photograph Studio, but "Gunfight at the OK Corral" sounded cooler than "Gunfight Outside Fly's Photo Shop." :V
It's very likely not true. Wayne had a bit part in a movie John Ford was making in 1928, Mother Machree. Earp was on the set either just visiting Ford or actually as a consultant. It was there where Wyatt told the director about the OK Corral showdown, and the yet to be crowned Duke wasn't even on set. What's more likely is that Wayne was doing an impression of Earp based on everything he learned from John Ford, who was the one who actually had a relationship with the famous lawman.
So wait, Frank survived two shotgun blasts directly to the chest? This sounds a bit more likely after they said that one member of the lawman faction survived three rounds of buckshot to the back, but even if Frank was able to survive getting shot twice in this manner, I don't feel like he would be talking, the pain of two shotgun blasts to the chest would probably stop any trash talking, even if it doesn't stop a heart.
Even if it is copper jacketed as depicted (which would have been very unusual at that time), it's still made mostly of lead. In fact copper jacketed bullets were invented 1 year AFTER this in Switzerland. So yeah, this shows an anachronistic bullet but even if it were true, it's still made of lead.
Well of course, the version I know best is from the original Star Trek episode where Kirk and crew are forced re-enact the shoot-out. And if it wasn't inaccurate to start with, they vary it even more because the crew are desperately trying to avoid the shoot-out.
Many ppl believe the Earp faction set out to ambush and murder the Cowboys at the fight, but that doesn't make any sense. The Earps and Holliday were outnumbered and outgunned, situated in a narrow lot; who in their right mind would think that's a good time & place to kill five, trained gunmen!?
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This episode was intense! Very entertaining and interesting watch! :)
Where’s the Nebula upload? They usually come out at the same time (or maybe it’s different for Lies episodes)
Extra history can you pls make the urban legend teke teke
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Never thought it was possible to see someone as a complete jerk, and at the same time admire his resolute way of living, until I knew Doc Holliday.
And nobody ever portrayed Doc Holliday more legendarily than Val Kilmer.
It takes some kind of balls to present yourself to an armed man out for your blood and tell him to blaze away.
@@jacob4920I’m your huckleberry…
And the Earps
Tbf most great men were absolute jerks
I love how at every possible moment, the universe conspired to NOT have a shootout that day. Doc Holiday didn't get angry until they told him NOT to fight. The cowboys were on their way out of town when they were _stopped in the process of leaving._ Things would've literally been fine if The Law had just sat this one out.
Strange things like that happens.
It’s entirely possible that the cowboys were gearing up not to leave town but to go out on a posse to kill Holiday and that Holiday being there when the lawmen showed up just expedited the fight. For all we know if the lawmen hadn’t shown up Holiday could’ve been dead and the cowboys could’ve fled.
The lawmen were told the cowboys were getting ready to attack, and acted accordingly. Maybe that was the case, or maybe they were given bad info. Considering the type of behaviour cowboys passing through Tombstone were generally known for, I think fight was more likely than flight, but we’ll never know for certain. Not sure about Docs decision to raise the shotgun instead of keeping it at low ready or port though; could arguably be a deterrent or escalation.
Exactly, these kind of situations make for some dark humor entertainment for people unrelated to the event (aka. us viewers from more than a century in the future). I sometimes feel like a higher being eating popcorn and enjoying in cruel glee while watching these kind of events in history unfold, because of how foolish all the people involved were (one reason why I love Extra History, they are making history not only understandable but enjoyable).
Keep in mind I only feel this way for specific events where only a small number of people were affected (I mean anything that doesn't involve lots of innocent people being killed or worse)
"Nobody knows who shoots first that day? Oh, I can relate..." - Han Solo.
That bounty hunter didn't stand a chance. We all know who shot first there...
@@extrahistoryIt was Walpole
@@SuperHGB It's always Walpole
@@SomeOne-gm5mdup it is always Walpole
@@extrahistoryIt was Walpole.
iiirc one reason why the Earps and Holliday were released was because they spared Ike Clanton, the man who started this whole mess, on account of him not having a weapon, thus giving a strong argument that they were acting in defense.
Spicer mentioned that on his decision. Ike claimed that as he ran he heard one or two shots whizzing past him. Even if that is not true, Wyatt's gun went off when Ike had him by the arm. And likely that was Wyatt trying to get Ike off of him. Ike was very lucky that day.
But Spicer was also not interested in the fact that Tom McLaury was unarmed. And he said that he believed the Earps fired first.
To Spicer, it was probably a matter of him thinking the deaths of three cowboys was something good for Tombstone. It was probably also a matter of supporting the law enforcement officials to give the image of being united so as not to be ram over by the local outlaw element.
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday in Tombstone still deserves an Oscar.
Tombstone is definitely my favorite retelling of this story, though I have a soft spot for the particularly awful episodes of 60s Doctor Who and Star Trek that do the same.
If someone told me Sam Elliott was a relative of the Earps, I'd believe them in a second.
He's our Huckleberry
@@Voreten He definitely played a great Virgil. But let's face it. Some people are BORN to be in Westerns. Sam Elliott was just one of those lucky basterds.
what about Kirk Douglas?
A legendary gun fight at a place called tombstone is just too meme-able to forget.
A lot of people, historically, died at Tombstone. Which means that particular town in Arizona was well-named! lol
I think the funniest thing about Tombstone is that it's not even the weirdest town name in Arizona
@@mechanicalhoundz which are then?
@@KasumiRINA We have Nothing, Colorado City [might I remind you WE AREN'T COLORADO. WHY DO WE HAVE A COLORADO CITY?], Willcox, Winkelman, Young, Bagdad, Why, Date, Three Way, Wagon Wheel, Scenic, the list goes on and on and it's so funny to me. Why are we like this.
@@mechanicalhoundzWelcome to the Wild Wild West 😂
"I got you now, you son of a b*tch."
Doc, "You're a daisy if you do."
"Blaze away Frank" is so metal
"We need a cool-headed person to hold the shotgun...here, Doc, you take it" - Just a genius move.
The movies make such hay of this being a righteous duel, when it was basically a dumb gang war that escalated.
Everyone knew Doc was crazy, so they would be less likely to try anything.
To be fair from the video, he only shot once Tom took out his gun and was not the first to shoot. Though he was the first to aim his gun forward, probably instigating the fight.
1. Obligatory Val Kilmer should have won an Oscar
2. This is great, and I am can't wait for the next episode.
I'm your Huckleberry.
Val’s best role. Ever. Of all time.
The idea of a gunslinging cowboy being a hollywood advisor is something that my brain is still struggling to wrap its head around.
EDIT: Yeesh, they're not cowboys, I get it. You know what I meant, and you get my point.
Earp was a former lawman, *not a cowboy.*
And even though it's a generic term, his opponents in the shootout *were The Cowboys.*
Cowboys were our equivalent of gangsters and thieves.
Wyatt hated Cowboys.
@@misternibbles7426 Yep, our modern-day adulation of cowboys is all due to...Hollywood Westerns. Back in the Wild West they were viewed kinda the way we view carnies today; as grungy and shady at best, as small-time crooks at worst. You could perhaps compare this to how comic book adaptations and superheroes are the most lucrative movie genre, whereas arguably before the genre really started taking off with the 1978 movie of Superman, comic books were viewed by the establishment as lowbrow, immature trash.
@@misternibbles7426 cowboys weren’t all criminals The Cowboys referenced in this video was a band of 30 criminals.
Most cowboys weren’t criminals.
The gang called cowboys were all criminals. People didn't call themselves cowboys in the 1800s.
I think this is one of my favourite Extra History series, despite being so short. More Western stories!
Those first minutes are the pinnacle of Extra History....
Surviving 3 loads of buckshot to the back is next level
Having lived in Southern Arizona for 2 decades, the Tombstone gun fight/stunt show is super awesome, and the town gives off a colonenial willamsburg vibe. It a nice place to visit even though its a little expensive
Wait! Don't Captain Kirk, Bones, Scotty and Mr. Spock defeat the Earps? Nice job as usual!
I can't believe they left out the Vulcan mind meld part of the story!
it is easier when you make yourself immune to the Earp's bullets.
The Doctor was there as well.
It was also a tribute since Bones’ actor played Morgan in one of OK Corral movie.
@@ajdynon The First Doctor's outfit actually looks reasonable for the era, while his companions decide to dress up in something out of "Annie Get Your Gun" and look completely out of place. And of course, people kidnap/threaten his companions since they think the "Doctor" they're talking about is Doc Holliday...
Very intense episode! Loved it! The voices were also great! Happy holidays guys! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
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Morgan Earp was actually shot in Willcox, Arizona--a ranching town about 40 miles further east. There is now a winery in the corner of the street where Morgan was gunned down--a change in Arizona culture to be sure!
Incorrect. Warren Earp was the one killed in Wilcox. Morgan was shot at the Campbell and Hatch pool hall in Tonbstome.
It's so interesting to hear your version of the events after hearing it so often from Hollywood. Apparently my family are descendants of the Earps! On their sister's side at least. So it's nice to hear about this! Thank you for your telling of the history, EH folks!
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This was a great video. Extra History is always putting out great, informative content.
Much appreciated!
One of the most famous gunfights in history.
Love the episode and as always great content! I find it funny that for so much of his own lifetime Wyatt was known far more for a call he made while refereeing a boxing match which most think was fixed, so much so that a somewhat common phrase at the time in newspapers was saying someone "pulled and Earp" when they were seen as not being on the level.
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Minor note, typically with Gaelic-based surnames that include Mc/Mac/etc in the initials, for example with the McLaury's you would usually do it like FMcL(for Frank McLaury).
Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next
I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai!
Wow that long?
@@THECHEESELORD69 yes
@@FakeBlocks thats dedication! super cool!
It may not be historically accurate, but the movie of this whole story is great for those who didn’t watch it.
Even in this animated version, I only see and hear Sam Elliott as Virgil Earp.
I would LOVE to see a McCoy-Hatfield series.
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Video series idea: I know you guys are not fond of just doing a series on a war but Switzerland is under represented in most media. I mean, when was that you've heard of Louis Wyrsch? Plus, their uniforms in the napoleonic wars were just awesome (especially the grenadiers). Also, this video was great and it just shows how even a 2 part series can have a compelling and all around good narrative. Love to see your team making good work 😎
Side note: at the battle of Berezina 1,300 Swiss soldiers held out against 40,000 Russians. The swiss managed to hold and killed 25,000 Russians! All while covering for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow simultaneously!
Also they were on of the first kingdoms to use pikes as their mainish weapon or infantry!
This may be controversial, tombstone with Kurt Russell is one of the best film iteration
It's in my top 10 of all time
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I agree with that. I think it might be my number seven spot.
And it’s my number two Western movie the first being Silverado
It's not only the best iteration of that particular classic... that movie is one of the Top 5 greatest Westerns OF ALL TIME!
@@jacob4920both tied with Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood also the greatest western movies of all time
Can’t help but hear the song, ‘The Good, the bad, and the ugly’ in my head after watching this
EH: "On one side, the Cowboys"
My brain: "On the other side, the Jets."
My brain STILL: "On the other side from the Jets, the Sharks?"
MY brain, meanwhile, goes: "Ah, the Cowboys... They must be kicking off against their staunchest rivals, the New York Giants. Probably be a good game, as usual..."
You just had to go and do that. Didn't you.
I have been to Tombstone on multiple occasions, and have thus seen the reenactment many times, and even with all that and listening to all the history talks there around it, I didn't know a good deal about this bit of history that you have shown in this.
I have also seen the statues of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in Tucon at the historic train depot, commemorating the shootout and later vendetta ride and resulting shootout at said depot. So you can literally trace parts of this history visibly across Southern Arizona from watching the shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone to seeing the statues of the shootout in Tucson.
The depot is only a modest walk from the downtown history museum and Hotel Congress where you can see where John Dillinger actually was arrested and learn about how all that went down (and how he later escaped in IL, much to the annoyance of Tucson officials).
Love your videos as good as oversimplified
Last Spring I visited Arizona, and one of my biggest regrets was not making it to Tombstone. I got as far as Tucson for the Pima Air Museum, and that was it.
Did you hit up Old Tucson?
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The funny thing is that Doc always thought he was going to die in a shootout or some other fight... He died in bed instead. His last words are allegedly: "Damn, this is funny."
Never knew the Duke himself modelled himself on Wyatt Earp.
Allegedly he got coffee for him.
Me neither, until I wrote about Wyatt Earp for a history column I write in a free weekly newspaper. Interesting.
It's always wild to me that when Western genre movies and tv were at their height (50s and 60s) the events portrayed were still within living memory and that the wild west period (1880s) was contemporary with patents for coaxial cable, solar cells and automobiles.
One could say that Virgil was... Motivated.
They STOOD ON BUISNESS FR
“Hell’s comin’ with me, y’a hear!? Hell’s comin’ with me!!”
Should have talked about Wyatt Earp's go to friends Bass Reeves and Annie Oakley
Thank you for the video.
It always amazes me to learn when certain people were alive, I never would’ve imagined Wyatt Earp lived well past the First World War
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Ahhh Tombstone. Gotta love Arizona, it's where all the real cowboy stuff happened! I'm curious, you guys have any plans to do any other Arizona stuff? Lots of stories to tell from here!
0:42 are those among us shadows...
It’s never been done better than in the film Tombstone.
6:58 Well, I doubt that they counted the bullets at that moment....the most accurate number would be "more than normal". Its more interesting that they went against mostly unarmed men.
Love Extra History! I wish you guys would do a series on the Julio-Claudian Dynasty Emperors and their legacy in history
Or Alexander the great!
A fun fact, Glen Wyatt Earp III played Billy Claiborne in 1993's Tombstone and is a 5th cousin of the actual Wyatt Earp.
There's also a clip from a game show here on TH-cam where the famous Earps half nephew also named Virgil Earp (their older half brother Newton named his two eldest sons after his younger half brothers Virgil & Wyatt) appeared on in 1958. The show was called _The $64,000 Question._
Tombstone Arizona was a very fun place to visit. It was cheap and entertaining. Basically you just walk around and find a reasonable place to have lunch. I would go back again if I still lived in arizona.
I live about a hour from dodge city and I hear a lot of gunfight stories
Wow I loved this movie ❤️
with how hazy this is this should have probably been a better episode of extra mythology
Honest opinion here, I've never seen a thumbnail more badass than this.
The video is also amazing!
You got to follow this up with a full series on Earp’s last ride
30 shots is just an average Tuesday in Chicago nowadays
Aw revenge cycles it’s nice to know we never have seen this again.
Im surprised that william “curly bill” Brocious wasn’t mentioned, he was the leader of the “cowboys” gang, and apparently his death as portrayed in 1993’s “Tombstone” is completely accurate to witness reports
I was honestly expecting this to go into Wyatt’s vendetta after they got through the gunfight.
Not exactly accurate. In Range has a video on it, but it wasn't an ambush. More like Wyatt and his group going to a spring and Curly Bill and his group were already there.
However, Wyatt braving multiple shots and not being hit at all, and cutting Curly Bill in half was accurate.
Wild Bill
Honestly I have a thing for you guys to make a video about. The origin of the Israel situation
boys... that escalate quickly
Wyatt killed a dude with a trident
I grew up here! Its nice to see some arizona history
4:36 Wait, he actually said the thing? I need to watch Val Kilmer again!
I did firearms training when I was enrolled in a private security academy, and they teach you that, in a gunfight, the first thing you have to do is seek cover. Don't just stand there blasting away, find something heavy to get behind first. But then they taught us about the gunfight at the OK Corral, and how Wyatt Earp was the only participant to not get shot. Why? Because he stood completely still while he blasted away, while all of his companions were jumping and running around. Thus their movements caught the Cowboys' eyes, and they shot at them. Whereas, since Wyatt stayed motionless, he didn't attract as much attention to himself, and he therefore went unnoticed and unshot. So the lesson they taught us was, in a Gunfight, always find cover and get behind it... Or don't! Sometimes it's better not to...
Minus 2 cool points for failure to mention "Spectre of the Gun" from Star Trek TOS among the adaptations. That episode was my first and only exposure to the OK Corral story for many years, and for those who haven't seen it, the Earps and Holliday are portrayed as straight-up nasty villains in that. I was an adult before I caught on that Wyatt Earp was an American icon in the heroic vein, generally speaking.
DUDEEE VIRGIL REALLY HAD HIS GUARDIAN ANGELS BY HIS SIDE DAMN
*Good the bad and the ugly theme playing in my head*🤠
My only note is the fact that Sheriff Behan and his part was not mentioned. How he told the Earps that he had “taken care of the situation” and disarmed the Cowboys.
"its unclear who shot first" I say Han
You know I have to look this up again because I could have sworn that Billy Clanton had at least 16 bullets in his body when he was killed. I guess I have to find that again.
3.
1. Left lung
2. Right side of his stomach, though his ribs
3. Right wrist, between base of thumb and wrist joint.
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I'm actually related to Tom McLowry. My grandfather Thomas McLaury was a relative. And I've heard many stories about the fight.
Just so you know....
If you do go to Tombstone...
Stop by to see one of the biggest and oldest known living rose bush in the world. Can't say when it was planted exactly or the exact name and location myself, I do know it is a variety of Scottish Highland miniature that covers about a quarter of an acre roughly....
It was an amazing thing. It was planted in 1885 and as of 2022, had a trunk circumference of about 13 feet. It was just weirdly idyllic standing underneath it. Utterly beautiful.
Also, interesting to note in regards to Hollywood; at least two Irish Civil War Generals went on to become film producers in America, including Emmet Dalton, the man who was beside Michael Collins when he was assassinated!
Dang you skipped over a lot of details
the amount of times vergil from devil may cry appeared in my head while watching this is uncountable
Could you do a series on the Hatfield and McCoy feud?
Wait, this is a famous story internationally? Never heared it before today
GEEZUS 3 loads of Buckshot? And survived? Virgil Earp was no bitch
Plot twist: The actual shootout happened closer to Fly's Photograph Studio, but "Gunfight at the OK Corral" sounded cooler than "Gunfight Outside Fly's Photo Shop." :V
The gunfight is evan reenacted on Star Trek.
wait, john wayne met wyatt erp?! if true, that's just wild.
It's very likely not true. Wayne had a bit part in a movie John Ford was making in 1928, Mother Machree. Earp was on the set either just visiting Ford or actually as a consultant. It was there where Wyatt told the director about the OK Corral showdown, and the yet to be crowned Duke wasn't even on set. What's more likely is that Wayne was doing an impression of Earp based on everything he learned from John Ford, who was the one who actually had a relationship with the famous lawman.
@@Your_Friend_Adam Thought something like that may be the case, but even that near of an almost-connect is still neat, all things considered.
So wait, Frank survived two shotgun blasts directly to the chest? This sounds a bit more likely after they said that one member of the lawman faction survived three rounds of buckshot to the back, but even if Frank was able to survive getting shot twice in this manner, I don't feel like he would be talking, the pain of two shotgun blasts to the chest would probably stop any trash talking, even if it doesn't stop a heart.
Even Star Trek got in n the act in the episode, “Spectre of the Gun”.
that bullet didn't look like it was made of lead
It's hard to tell when it's flying by.
Even if it is copper jacketed as depicted (which would have been very unusual at that time), it's still made mostly of lead.
In fact copper jacketed bullets were invented 1 year AFTER this in Switzerland. So yeah, this shows an anachronistic bullet but even if it were true, it's still made of lead.
@@extrahistory the color is orange.
Even Star Trek did an episode about the Gunfight on Freemont Street
You know doc Holliday should have been wearing a derby hat it's more historically accurate for him
Still only the second most violent Fremont Street in the American Southwest.
Well of course, the version I know best is from the original Star Trek episode where Kirk and crew are forced re-enact the shoot-out. And if it wasn't inaccurate to start with, they vary it even more because the crew are desperately trying to avoid the shoot-out.
Tombstone is by far the best version imo 😂...
Many ppl believe the Earp faction set out to ambush and murder the Cowboys at the fight, but that doesn't make any sense. The Earps and Holliday were outnumbered and outgunned, situated in a narrow lot; who in their right mind would think that's a good time & place to kill five, trained gunmen!?
I have the same name as one of the erp brothers every single time you said his name my head popped up😂
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I recently learned that Billy claymore was my ancestor
Wow
Those shadows are looking rather impostery