Editing Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (section)

== In popular culture ==
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The public perception of the Earp brothers' actions at the time were widely divergent. Even today, the event and its participants are viewed differently by opinionated admirers and detractors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tombstonetimes.com/stories/wyatt.html |title=Tombstone Times – Wyatt Earp, Tombstonian |first=Tim |last=Fattig |access-date=April 13, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717071745/http://www.tombstonetimes.com/stories/wyatt.html |archive-date=July 17, 2011 }}</ref> The controversy still stimulates ongoing interest in the gunfight and related events.

=== Gunfight sketch ===
A hand-drawn sketch of the gunfight was made by John Flood with Wyatt Earp's assistance on September 15, 1921; it was sold at auction in October 2010 for $380,000. The map describes the position of a number of witnesses and all of the participants with the exception of Ike Clanton, who fled from the gunfight.<ref name=fraser>{{cite web|last1=Fraser |first1=Paul |title=$380,000 for Wyatt Earp's sketch of the infamous Gunfight at the OK Corral |url=http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/News/Medals-%26-Militaria/2010-News-Archive/$380,000-for-Wyatt-Earp's-sketch-of-the-infamous-Gunfight-at-the-OK-Corral/4758.page |publisher=Paul Fraser Collectibles |access-date=March 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109220341/http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/News/Medals-%26-Militaria/2010-News-Archive/%24380%2C000-for-Wyatt-Earp%27s-sketch-of-the-infamous-Gunfight-at-the-OK-Corral/4758.page |archive-date= January 9, 2014 |date=October 11, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Paintings ===
In 1952, [[Victor Forsythe|Victor Clyde Forsythe]], a popular painter of desert scenes and cowboy artist, painted ''Gunfight at O.K. Corral'', a {{convert|43|by|60|in|cm}} oil painting. Forsythe's father William Bowen Forsyth<!-- Sic - he spelled the name without the "e". --> and uncle Ira Chandler owned the store Chandler & Forsyth C.O.D. at 328 Fremont Street, west of the back entrance to the O.K. Corral and half a block from the site of the gunfight. They claimed that they had been present and witnessed the shootout. Newspaper accounts of the painting reported that Forsythe had interviewed Tombstone residents and examined many of the existing buildings before beginning to plan his painting. In May 1988, his studio printed and sold a limited edition of 390 copies of the painting.<ref>{{cite web|last1=de Haas|first1=David D.|title=Victor Clyde Forsythe – Art of the West|date=August 16, 2013|url=http://www.historynet.com/victor-clyde-forsythe-and-the-gunfight-at-o-k-corral-a-new-perspective.htm|access-date=July 1, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702123634/http://www.historynet.com/victor-clyde-forsythe-and-the-gunfight-at-o-k-corral-a-new-perspective.htm|archive-date=July 2, 2015}}</ref>

John Gilchriese became friends with [[John H. Flood, Jr.|John Flood]], who had been Wyatt Earp's secretary, confidante, and best friend for many years. When Earp died, Flood inherited many of his personal belongings. Flood in turn willed them to Gilchriese, who amassed over a number of years one of the largest collections of personal items belonging to Wyatt and Virgil Earp, along with many unpublished photos of them and their family. Gilchriese opened the Wyatt Earp Museum in Tombstone in 1966 and commissioned Western artist [[Don Perceval]] to paint the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The oil on masonite painting titled ''The Street Fight'' is {{convert|1.93|by|1.22|m|ftin|order=flip}}. It was the largest work ever executed by Perceval. He referred to original documents in Gilchriese's collection, including Wyatt Earp's own diagram of the shootout, and unpublished notes made by John Flood, to create what is regarded as the most accurate depiction of the shootout.<ref name=liveauctioneer>{{cite web |title=44098: Wonderful Painting of the O.K.Corral Gunfight |url=http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/27469268_wonderful-painting-of-the-ok-corral-gunfight |publisher=Live Auctioneers |access-date=March 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321011003/http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/27469268_wonderful-painting-of-the-ok-corral-gunfight|archive-date=March 21, 2015 }}</ref> Gilchreise had 500 lithographic prints reproduced from the original, which Perceval signed. The prints were sold by the museum for $10 ({{Inflation|US|10|1966|fmt=eq}}).<ref>{{cite news|title=Tombstone Gunfight Recreated On Canvas |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/18200115/ |newspaper=Tucson Daily Citizen|access-date=March 21, 2015 |location=Tucson, Arizona |page=21|date=October 17, 1966|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702072405/http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/18200115/ |archive-date=July 2, 2015}}</ref>

After Gilchriese closed his museum, the painting and other contents of the museum were sold at auction by John's Western Gallery of San Francisco. The estimated auction price for the painting had been $200,000 to $300,000;<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Christie's – Invitation to Consign |date=February 2003 |page=141 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yV0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA141 |issn=1522-9149 |volume=48 |number=2 |magazine=Los Angeles Magazine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417123650/https://books.google.com/books?id=yV0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA141 |archive-date=April 17, 2016 }}<!-- This is actually an advertisement in the Los Angeles Magazine --></ref> the final sale price on June 25, 2004, was $40,250. It was put up for auction again on June 14, 2014, with an estimated selling price of $40,000–$60,000 but failed to sell.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/wonderful-painting-of-the-o.k.-corral-gunfight,-c-44098-c-56a78508bd |title=Lot 44098: Wonderful Painting of the O.K. Corral Gunfight, Commissioned by John Gilchriese in 1966 for his Legendary Tombstone Museum |access-date=June 8, 2015 |date=June 14, 2014 |url-access=registration |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611205232/http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/wonderful-painting-of-the-o.k.-corral-gunfight,-c-44098-c-56a78508bd |archive-date=June 11, 2015 }}</ref>

=== Origin of the gunfight's name ===
Less than a month after the shootout it was described by a local newspaper as the "Gunfight at The O.K. Corral". William Breakenridge in his 1928 book ''Helldorado: Bringing Law to the Mesquite'' described it as "The Incident Near the O.K. Corral". Stuart Lake titled his chapter about the conflict "At the O.K. Corral" in his popular book ''[[Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal]]''. But it was the popular movie ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' that cemented the incident and its erroneous location in popular consciousness. The movie and accompanying mythologizing also altered the way that the public thought of the Earps and the outlaws. Prior to the movie, the media often criticized the Earps' actions in Tombstone. In the movies, they became the good guys, always ready to stand for what is right.<ref name=guinna>{{cite book |last=Guinn |first=Jeff |date=May 17, 2011 |title=The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral and How it Changed the American West |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1-4391-5424-3 |edition=First Simon & Schuster hardcover}}</ref>

The incident has become a fixture in American history due to the personal nature of the feud between the Earps and the McLaury and Clanton brothers and the symbolism of the fight between lawmen and the Cowboys. The Cowboys maimed Virgil and murdered Morgan but escaped prosecution, and Wyatt's extra-legal [[Earp Vendetta Ride|campaign for revenge]] captured people's attention. The gunfight and its aftermath stand for the change overcoming America as the Western frontier ceased to exist, as a nation that was rapidly industrializing pushed out what had been a largely agrarian economy.<ref name=dearment>{{Cite book | last1 = DeArment | first1 = Robert K.| title = Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend | year =1989 | publisher = University of Oklahoma Press | isbn = 978-0-8061-2221-2 | pages = 442}}</ref>{{rp|206|date=November 2012}}

[[File:Gunfight at the OK Corral.jpg|thumb|Daily reenactment at the O.K. Corral]]

The town of Tombstone has capitalized on interest in the gunfight. A portion of the town is a [[Tombstone Historic District|historical district]] that has been designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] and is listed in the ''[[National Register of Historic Places]]'' by the U.S. [[National Park Service]].<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web |url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=88&ResourceType=District|title=Tombstone Historic District |work=National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher=National Park Service |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030073543/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=88&ResourceType=District|archive-date=October 30, 2007}}</ref> A local company produces daily theatrical re-enactments of the gunfight.<ref>{{cite web |title=O.K. Corral |url=http://www.ok-corral.com/ |access-date=April 13, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110406075758/http://www.ok-corral.com/ |archive-date=April 6, 2011}}</ref>

=== Film and television ===
With the widespread sales of televisions after World War II, producers spun out a large number of western-oriented shows. At the height of their popularity in 1959, there were more than two dozen "cowboy" programs on each week. At least six of them were directly or indirectly connected with Wyatt Earp: ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]'', ''[[Bat Masterson (TV series)|Bat Masterson]]'', ''[[Tombstone Territory]]'', ''[[Broken Arrow (TV series)|Broken Arrow]]'', ''[[Johnny Ringo (TV series)|Johnny Ringo]]'', and ''[[Gunsmoke]]''. [[Hugh O'Brian]] portrayed Earp on the namesake show ''Wyatt Earp'' which ran for six seasons, and he was forever associated with that role.<ref name=guinn/>

A 2003 episode of [[Discovery Channel]]'s ''[[Unsolved History]]''<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Shoot-Out at the O.K. Corral |series=1|number =10 {{{!}}} Unsolved History|year=2003}}</ref><ref name= tt1248090>{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}</ref> used modern technology to attempt to re-enact the gunfight. They utilized a movie set to recreate a space similar to the lot where the original gun fight took place. They confirmed that the front-to-back wrist wound suffered by Billy Clanton could only have occurred if his arm was raised in the manner of one holding a pistol, and that the [[gunpowder|black powder]] may have obscured the shooters' view of each other.<ref name=tt1248090/> The episode concluded that the three eyewitnesses for the prosecution (Sheriff Behan, Ike Clanton, and Billy Claiborne) likely offered perjured testimony. They found that Tom McLaury may have been hit by the shotgun round under his armpit as he reached over his horse for a rifle in his scabbard, as the horse turned away from him at the same time.<ref name=tt1248090/>

The stories about the gunfight written in the 20th century affected American culture. Numerous dramatic, fictional, and documentary works have been produced about or in reference to the event, with widely varying degrees of accuracy. These works include:
* ''[[Law and Order (1932 film)|Law and Order]]'' (1932) with [[Walter Huston]], the first film to depict the gunfight<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-0yKIIRLSMC&pg=PA151 |title=Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film: Hollywood's Famous Lawmen and Outlaws |last=Rainey |first=Buck |year=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781476603285 |pages=151 }}</ref>
* ''[[Frontier Marshal (1939 film)|Frontier Marshal]]'' (1939) starring [[Randolph Scott]] and directed by [[Allan Dwan]]
* ''[[Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die]]'' (1942) with Richard Dix<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a-JLDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA103 |title=Invented Lives, Imagined Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity |last1=Epstein |first1=William H. |last2=Palmer |first2=R. Barton |year=2016 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9781438460819 |pages=103 }}</ref>
* ''[[My Darling Clementine]]'' (1946) with [[Henry Fonda]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Hutton |first=Paul Andrew |author-link=Paul Andrew Hutton |title=Wyatt Earp's First Film |url=http://www.truewestmagazine.com/wyatt-earps-first-film/ |website=True West |date=May 7, 2012 |access-date=November 3, 2015 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014933/http://www.truewestmagazine.com/wyatt-earps-first-film/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]'' (1955–1961), TV series with [[Hugh O'Brian]], season 6 episode 36<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-life-and-legend-of-wyatt-earp/episode-36-season-6/the-gunfight-at-the-ok-corral/205627 |title=The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp |website=[[TV Guide]] |access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
* ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (1957) with [[Burt Lancaster]] and [[Kirk Douglas]]<ref name=silva/>
* ''[[The Gunfighters (Doctor Who)|The Gunfighters]]'' (1966), a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial<ref>{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=David J. |last2=Stammers |first2=Mark |last3=Walker |first3=Stephen James |title=Doctor Who The Handbook – The First Doctor |year=1994 |publisher=[[Virgin Books|Doctor Who Books]] |location=London |isbn=0-426-20430-1 |page=126 }}</ref>
* ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'' (1967) with [[James Garner]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hour-of-the-gun-1967 |title=Hour of the Gun movie review & film summary (1967) |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=October 24, 1967 |author-link=Roger Ebert |access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
* "[[Spectre of the Gun]]" (1968), an [[Star Trek: The Original Series|original ''Star Trek'']] episode<ref>{{cite book|last1=Solow|first1=Herbert F.|author-link1=Herbert F. Solow|author2=Robert H. Justman|author-link2=Robert H. Justman|title=Inside Star Trek: The Real Story|year=1997|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=978-0-671-00974-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671896287/page/403 403]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671896287/page/403}}</ref>
* ''[[Doc (film)|Doc]]'' (1971) written by [[Pete Hamill]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doc-1971 |title=Doc movie review & film summary (1971) | last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=September 30, 1971 |access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
* "Showdown at O.K. Corral" (1972), an ''Appointment with Destiny'' episode that was nominated for an [[Emmy Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/showdown-ok-corral-appointment-destiny |title=Showdown at O.K. Corral: Appointment with Destiny |website=Television Academy |access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
* In the ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'', 1st season episode; "The Good Old, Bad Old Days" (1994), Carmen stole some cowboy clothing during a  reenactment of the gun fight. {{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}
* "Ghost Fight at the OK Corral" (1987), ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' season 2 episode 47<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-real-ghostbusters/episode-47-season-2/ghost-fight-at-the-ok-corral/203960 |title=The Real Ghostbusters |website=[[TV Guide]] |access-date=October 23, 2019}}</ref>
* ''[[Tombstone (film)|Tombstone]]'' (1993) with [[Kurt Russell]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' (1994) with [[Kevin Costner]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* "Shootout at Fly's Photographic Studio", a ''[[History Bites]]'' episode{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* "Rule of the Gun" (2004), an episode of ''[[Days That Shook the World]]''{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* ''[[Tombstone Rashomon]]'' (2017), a film by [[Alex Cox]]

=== In print ===
* ''Saint Johnson'' (1930), {{ISBN|978-2330051051}} – A novel by [[W.R. Burnett]]. A thinly fictionalized depiction of the conflict between the outlaws and the law officers.
* ''Who Rides with Wyatt'' (1955), {{ISBN|978-0843942927}} – A novel by [[Henry Wilson Allen|Will Henry]].
* ''[[Warlock (1958 novel)|Warlock]]'' (1958), {{ISBN|978-1590171615}} – A novel by [[Oakley Hall]].
* ''Bloody Season'' (1987), {{ISBN|978-0515125313}} – A novel by [[Loren D. Estleman]], a carefully researched depiction of events leading up the shootout and gunfight itself.
* ''[[Christ Versus Arizona]]'' (1988), {{ISBN|978-8432205828}} – A novel by Spanish Nobel winner [[Camilo José Cela]], it consists of a single sentence that is more than one hundred pages long.
* ''Frontier Earth'' (1999), {{ISBN|978-0441005895}} – a sci-fi/western novel by actor [[Bruce Boxleitner]], about the events leading up to the gunfight.
* ''The Return of Little Big Man'' (1999), {{ISBN|978-0316091176}} – in which novelist [[Thomas Berger (novelist)|Thomas Berger]]'s wandering protagonist Jack Crabb becomes a witness to the event.
* ''Gunman's Rhapsody'' (2001), {{ISBN|978-0425182895}} – by [[Robert B. Parker]]
* ''Telegraph Days'' (2006), {{ISBN|978-0739470169}} – a novel by [[Larry McMurtry]], includes a representation of the gunfight, told by a fictional journalist and eyewitness
* ''[[Territory (novel)|Territory]]'' (2007), {{ISBN|978-0312857356}} – a novel by [[Emma Bull]] offers a fantasy retelling of the events leading up to the fight.
* ''The Buntline Special'' (2010), {{ISBN|978-1616142490}} – by [[Mike Resnick]], a [[Steampunk]] re-imagining of the gunfight.
* ''The Last Kind Words Saloon'' (2014), {{ISBN|978-0393351194}} – by [[Larry McMurtry]], culminates with a version of the gunfight.
* ''Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral'' (2015), {{ISBN|978-0062198778}} – by [[Mary Doria Russell]] tells Wyatt Earp's story.
* ''Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell'' (2020), {{ISBN|978-1250214591}} by Tom Clavin

=== In mathematics ===
[[David Williams (mathematician)|David Williams]] and Paul McIlroy introduced a mathematical model for the O.K. Corral gunfight, which they published in ''[[Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society]]'' (1998). Later this model was analyzed by [[Sir John Kingman]] (1999, 2002), and Kingman and Volkov (2003). They analyzed the probability of "survival of exactly S gunmen given an initially fair configuration."<ref name=mathkingvolk>{{cite journal |journal=Journal of Theoretical Probability |date=January 2003 |volume= 16 |number= 1 |pages= 267–276 | title=Solution to the OK Corral Model via Decoupling of Friedman's Urn |doi=10.1023/A:1022294908268 |last1=Kingman |first1=J. F. C. |last2=Volkov |first2=S. E. |s2cid=10231816 }}</ref>