and it has that reputatio
most famous 30 seconds in
by Hollywood and major mo
Kurt Russell's 1993 class
Costner's 1994 film Wyatt
historian Don Taylor says
us a false sense of what
all based on the movies,
entertainment business ha
it into 30 seconds on Fre
all about the gunfight. I
tombstone was not the cra
shoot them up. Place that
out. To me. It was very m
and extremely wealthy. $3
worth of silver was mined
a billion dollars today.
became legend. The actual
place down fremont Street
in a narrow vacant lot fo
to fight on fremont Stree
it took place When Stuart
Earp Frontier Marshal in
as the gunfight at the OK
ran with it. We've been s
october afternoon with ra
doc Holliday and the herb
hands, boys were here for
In tombstone you can catc
the gunfight at the actua
Corral. Taylor says it gi
Hollywood. It's close, it
you'll see of anything, w
or movies or or live fran
McClary dead, 19 year old
And that was it. Over bef
What I tell the tourists
any good guys out here. T
people that came here to
that was all they cared a
uh friendship between the
bad parties. The cowboys
tombstone. Also miss the
accurately set up the sto
blood between the herbs a
were so many issues invol
and the herbs and that pe
were southern democrats a
these cowboys around. The
the rules and making it.
herbs wanted it and you k
and the cowboys said no w
So it was very politicall
know, you could have guns
do this, you can't. And t
split in half because of
divided after the 30 shot
remained divided after Do
earps were arrested days
peace followed. Historian
herbs statement during th
end to the misconception
fired first. Everybody sa
Wyatt and his testimony s
fired the first shots alm
became general. The cowbo
was one of the dead givea
on both days. On november
in charge that day had ac
and that there was not en
California. He was only h
It was 28 important month
Cochise County history in
up and fired in rapid suc
a cucumber and was not hi
interviewed him and said,