Naked History – Unearthed
Gunfight at Tombstone Inside the Wild West
Published: 20 April 2026 at 00:00 Europe/London
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It’s the stuff of Hollywood myth; that’s spawned dozens of films and books – the Gunfight at the OK Corral. The thirty-second shootout leaves three outlaws dead on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona – and makes legends of gunslingers Doc Holiday and Wyatt Earp.
But what really happens that day? Why do the outlaws die and the lawmen survive? How does cattle-rustling and the discovery of silver play a part in the most famous gunfight of the old West? And what finally happens to Tombstone, the town ‘too tough to die’?
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