"Hey, Wyatt, your mother can't cook and smells like onions!"
BAM, BAM, BAM, BAM....
Hello cowboys and cowgirls!
Today marks the 141st anniversary of the OK Corral shootout, a key event in Wild West history. This shooting is emblematic of the lawlessness of the Wild West.
The Earp brothers were a family where the saying "blood is thicker than water" could have been a family motto. They worked as lawmen as well as saloon keepers in several towns on the frontier before coming to Tombstone, Arizona, in 1879.
The brothers, who had never worked as cowboys or ranchers in their lives, soon came into conflict with a loose gang, which made a living as cowboys as well as cattle smugglers and horse thieves. This conflict escalated until it culminated on 26 October 1881. The attempt to arrest the brothers Frank and Tom McLaury, Billy and Ike Clanton, and Billy Claiborne and Wes Fuller ended in a wild shootout as the cowboys on one side and Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday, on the other, fired 30 shots at each other in 30 seconds.
In the end, two of the three Earp brothers were wounded, Doc Holliday had been grazed, the McLaurys were dead, and Billy Claiborne was also no longer among the living.
However, the conflict did not end with the shooting, but dragged on for some time.
This shooting has been featured in numerous films and books and is considered one of the most important events to survive the Wild West era. Now for the all-important question: who shot first? Tell us in the comments here and on our social media channels!