Editing My Darling Clementine (section)

===Development===
In 1931, [[Stuart N. Lake|Stuart Lake]] published the first [[Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal|biography]] two years after Earp's death.<ref name=goodman/> Lake retold the story in the 1946 book ''My Darling Clementine'',<ref name=goodman/> for which Ford acquired the film rights. The two books have been determined to be largely fictionalized stories about the [[Earp brothers]] and the [[gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] and their conflict with the outlaw [[The Cowboys (Cochise County)|Cowboys]]: [[Billy Clanton]], [[Tom McLaury]] and his brother [[Frank McLaury]]. The gunfight was relatively unknown to the American public until Lake published the two books and after the movie was made.<ref name=goodman/>

Director [[John Ford]] said that when he was a prop boy in the early days of [[silent pictures]], Earp would visit pals he knew from his Tombstone days on the sets. "I used to give him a chair and a cup of coffee, and he told me about the fight at the O.K. Corral. So in ''My Darling Clementine'', we did it exactly the way it had been."<ref name=Hutton/><ref name=gallagher/> Ford did not want to make the movie, but his contract required him to make one more movie for [[20th Century Fox]].<ref name=Faragher/>

In their later years, Wyatt and [[Josephine Earp]] worked hard to eliminate any mention of Josephine's previous relationship with [[Johnny Behan]] or Wyatt's previous common law marriage to Matty Blaylock. They successfully kept Josephine's name out of Lake's biography of Wyatt and after he died, Josephine threatened to sue the movie producers to keep it that way.<ref name=rosa/> Lake corresponded with Josephine, and he claimed she attempted to influence what he wrote and hamper him in every way possible, including consulting lawyers. Josephine insisted she was striving to protect Wyatt Earp's legacy.<ref name=shapell/>

After the movie ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (in which [[John Ireland]] portrayed another real-life figure [[Johnny Ringo]]) was released in 1957, the shootout came to be known by [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral|that name.]]