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=== Physical proximity === When the Earps approached the lot, the four lawmen initially faced six Cowboys: Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Billy Clanton, Billy Claiborne, Wes Fuller, and Ike Clanton.<ref name=fraser/><ref name=hornung/>{{rp|88}} When the Cowboys saw the officers, they stepped away from the Harwood house. In testimony given by witnesses afterward, they disagreed about the precise location of the men before, during and after the gunfight.<ref name=knuthco1>{{cite web |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~knuthco1/recent/TheStreetfight.htm |title=The Streetfight by Jeff Morey β Tombstone History Archives |access-date=March 2, 2011 |first=Jeffrey J. |last=Morey |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628181800/http://home.earthlink.net/~knuthco1/recent/TheStreetfight.htm |archive-date=June 28, 2011 }}</ref> The coroner's inquest and the [[O.K. Corral hearing and aftermath|Spicer hearing]] produced a sketch showing the Cowboys standing, from left to right facing Fremont Street, with Billy Clanton and then Frank McLaury near the Harwood house and Tom McLaury and Ike Clanton roughly in the middle of the lot. Opposite them and initially only about {{convert|6|to|10|ft|m}} away, Virgil Earp was on the left end of the Earp party, standing a few feet inside the vacant lot and nearest Ike Clanton. Behind him a few feet near the corner of [[C. S. Fly]]'s boarding house was Wyatt. Morgan Earp was standing on Fremont Street to Wyatt's right, and Doc Holliday anchored the end of their line in Fremont Street, a few feet to Morgan's right.<ref name=knuthco1/> Wyatt Earp drew a sketch in 1924 and another with [[John H. Flood, Jr.|John Flood]] on September 15, 1926, that depicted [[Billy Clanton]] near the middle of the lot, close to the Harwood house. Tom and Frank McLaury stood deeper in the lot. Frank was in the center between the two buildings, holding the reins of his horse. Tom was closer to C. S. Fly's boarding house. According to Wyatt's sketches, Morgan was on the right of the lawmen, close to the Harwood house, opposite Billy Clanton near the Harwood house and close to Fremont St. Virgil was deeper in the lot, opposite Frank and Ike Clanton. Wyatt was to Virgil's left, opposite Tom. Doc Holliday hung back a step or two on Fremont Street.<ref name=turner/>{{rp|145|date=November 2012}}<ref name=johns>{{cite web |url=http://johnswesterngallery.com/pdf/Catalogue12.pdf |title=The Gilchriese Collections |publisher=Johns' Western Gallery |location=San Francisco |access-date=April 14, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713114345/http://johnswesterngallery.com/pdf/Catalogue12.pdf |archive-date=July 13, 2011 }}</ref> Neither of Wyatt's sketches included Ike Clanton or Billy Claiborne, who ran from the fight.<ref name="lubet"/>
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