Much of the colorful dialogue is pulled from real newspaper reports. But not everything that transpires in Tombstone is in line with what really happened.
But for Wyatt Earp’s arrival in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in December, 1879, the ultimate fate of the “The Town Too Tough to Die” made famous in so many books and motion pictures, may have been different: while Tombstone exists because of prospector Ed Schieffelin, the town persists because of Wyatt Earp and his singular exploits on the Arizona frontier of the early 1880′s.
Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday had a date with destiny October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona. Attempting to disarm local cowboys at the O.K. Corral, the ensuing gunfight on Fremont Street gained legendary status in Old West lore. Here, our combative pistolcraft expert