The OK Corral has stuck in the American psyche since October 26, 1881, when the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday strode down Tombstone’s Main Street and confronted a quartet of cowboys and ranchers near the O.K. Corral. Less than one minute and dozens of bullets later, three men were dead. Hard to believe that anyone […]
132 years ago: The Gunfight at the OK Corral. Why are we still talking about this today?
October 26, 2013 by
Tombstone karma
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So many terrible things to mourn about the Tucson tragedy….and since it happened in the shadow of Tombstone, we are in for a serious round of OK Corral references. Here’s one from Timothy Egan titled “Tombstone Politics” from today’s NYT: And Gail Collins quotes Giffords herself after her office was vandalized: Giffords brushed off the […]