Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how Stuff Works dot com. Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Katie Lambert, joined today by Sarah Dowdy. How are you, Sarah, I'm good, Katie. I'm excited about this gun fight. Well, and thank you to the listener who sent us in the request. John in South Saint Paul, Minnesota said he could not wait to hear all about the gunfight at the Okay Corral. So we're gonna do a little with busting and um go through the shootout. Yeah. So our story takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, which was a boom town in the eighteen eighties and probably if it wasn't for this gunfight, it would be a ghost town today. But um in the in eighteen seventy nine, prospector finds silver um and he's warned by a passing soldier that the only thing you're going to find in those hills as your own tombstone. And he showed him, didn't he. The town grew from one hundred people to seven thousand people in two years because of all the silver mining, and it was quite the place for a lot of rough and lawless horse wrestlers, bandits. They had a big red light district, lots of saloons and bars. And there are two key parties in Tombstone in eighteen eighteen eighty one, the Earps and the cowboys. And you've probably heard of the Herbs because of Whyatt Earp, but it wasn't just him. He had some brothers. Why It worked a security at a saloon. James was a car dealer in a bartender and his brother's Virgil and Morgan, guarded stage coaches. And Virgil was also a deputy U s Marshal while Wyatt was a deputy sheriff. And the cowboys, on the other hand, were pretty lawless, not the heroes of movies that we don't think they were hill racing. We've got Clanton and Bill Clinton, who are especially notorious, and we have Tom and Frank mclowery, two sets of brothers who liked hanging out with horse wrestler. So the trouble starts in a summer of eighteen eighty when Virgil Earp goes to his brother's Wyatt and Morgan and says that there were men who stole six mules from an army outpost. So they go on the lookout and they find the horses at the mcclowery ranch and the brands have been changed so they no longer look like they belonged to the army. And Frank mcclawery is having none of it and tells him, you know, he's just a deputy u s Marshal and get off my properties your concern and not accepting the legal positions. So a little bit of trouble starts there, Yeah, and troubles bruin on another front, with Wyatt Earp going up against Johnny Bean, who is kind of a cowboy type more than the law abiding type, over a woman Josephine Marcus, and over the sheriff position, right, and Josephine first picked Johnny, but she ended up married to Wyatt for about fifty years. That wasn't until later, but both men wanted to be appointed sheriff of the state, because that's how that worked, and whyatt ended up dropping out of the race because he could tell the governor was leaning much more towards Johnny, and Johnny told him that he would give him a lesser appointment, so he thought, okay, you know, I'll drop out, and that didn't work out. So these guys have been gripped in a professional and romantic competition. So there's a lot of resentment from the start. Yes, So in March of one the Tombstone Benson's stage coach is held up and twenty six thousand dollars of stolen, and the driver and the passenger are both killed, and Virgil Earp ends up leading a posse to hunt down the people who robbed it, and he brings in his brothers of course, Wyatt and Morgan, along with Doc Holiday, who I'm sure everyone has heard of him. I didn't know this, but he used to be a dent which and he was how related to Margaret Mitchell, which I found out when I was touring the Hop from Georgia. Anyways, Doc holidays in Virgil Earp's posse. Um Sheriff Being also leads a posse. The Earth Group finds a guy who confesses to this stagecoach hold up, though, and they turn him over to the sheriff. He ends up escaping. There's some question as to whether his jail cell is even locked, did be in just let him escape and why it. Obviously, no fan of Being suspects that he might have been in on it right, and his past doesn't even Yeah, they don't even get their reward, so they're they're pretty piste off at this point. So according to the story, whyatt Earp makes a deal with Ike Clanton of the infamous Clintons that we mentioned earlier, and he says that if Ike will give him information about who did the robbery, then why it will make sure that he gets the reward from well spargoward. And these are two guys who would want to have no professional association with each other, you wouldn't They neither would want their name linked to the other. One is the semi law abiding man, the other's the cowboy U. So this deal is very under the table. Well, and whyatt thought that way he could make the arrest and he would look good, you know, unlike Johnny Bean and Clanton just wanted the money and or to set up a trap for why the part still unshore. Unfortunately, the actual robbers of the stagecoach are killed in a gunfight in New Mexico, so the deal isn't even there's no point. So in October of eight one, Clanton and Doc Holiday, which remember on opposite sides of this particular conflict, are both at the Alhambra Saloon. And historians don't know whether Clanton planned this meeting because he wanted reassurance that why it wasn't going to turn him in, or if Whyatt set it up to scare Ike into behaving because Doc Holiday was not the kind of man you wanted to mess with. But either way, the meeting does not go well and the two start trading insults and they end up both getting kicked out by security um interestingly enough, Morgan Earp Uh and the confrontation kind of carries on through the night though, even though they're no longer in the saloon, Right and Ike ends up in an all night poker game at another saloon with Johnny b. N, Virgil Earp, and Tomic Lowry, which it is quite the motley crew because again they're all in opposite sides, and it just keeps going, the trading of insults and death threats. Even right Ike is. Ike is saying some pretty nasty stuff about the Earth's all around town and the next morning he's still talking about Doc Holiday and the Earps and they find out and they're not pleased now and they actually end up arresting him up for illegally carrying a firearm in public, which seems like kind of a low blow because they were all doing that and they just wanted a pretense. Yeah, definitely, um and Wider joins into the party to taunt Ike and just this he calls him a damn dirty calfie. So the whole thing is escalating out of control, and even why it runs into Tom mclowery, one of the other cowboys when he's leaving the courtroom and wax him over the head with his gun. So you know, the lawmen are not doing their part to to bring the turn the fire down on this fight that's brewing well, and news is traveling fast. So Billy Clinton and Frank mcclowry here about everything that's going on, and they decide they're having none of it, and they buy a bunch of bullets and set up a meeting and a vacant lot on Fremont Street, which isn't actually at the Okay Corral to discuss their plans. And when Sheriff Ban finds out about this, he knows that this is not going to end well, so he heads off to Fremont Street to meet them and tries to get Frank mclowry's gun. Frank won't let the sheriff disarm him until the Earths are disarmed, which that's a I don't know, it's a hotheaded response. Yes, it's not really very acceptable. Um, but Ike is padded down, he doesn't have a weapon. Tom says he's unarmed. Billy is just like I'm heading out of town and the sheriff doesn't even bother to check him. At this point, the Earth's and doc Holiday are on their way and the sheriff tells them not to go or they'll be killed. But he also tells them that he's disarmed the men, which makes no sense. It is really weird because he didn't well and it's too totally contradictory statements. So this is where it all begins. And there are two versions of events that were given at the trial. So Katie and are going to have a show down here. I will be playing the part of why at Earth and I will be like Lanton. So Wyatt Earp says that the mcclowry's and the Clinton and the Clantons are still upset about these stolen mules, and they've been making threats for months, and he makes this deal with I Clanton over stage coach killings, which we had mentioned, and on October twenty six, Doc Holiday and I Clanton got into that fight and they were separated by the RBS. And then he says that I continued to threaten him throughout the night, and the next morning all the brothers here that he's still threatening them, so they arrest him and bring him to court. Tom mcclowry starts threatening them, so why it hits him on the head and walks away. So he says this was a provoked attack, and he meets up with his brothers and Doc Holiday and here's what. The mcclowry's and Clantons are armed and they've gone to the Okay Corral. So at this point the brothers are thinking about arming themselves, but Virgil asks for help disarming them, so instead he's trying to paint their intentions as going into the with purely innocent attentions and let's disarm these dangerous, violen men. So they walk in that direction and the sheriff walks up to the earps and says, hey, the men have been disarmed. You know, there's no danger here. And when they see the men in the lot Frank mclowry and Billy Clanton have visible guns, so you know, being wyatt EARP, I am a bit alarmed, and I decided to get ready to take out mine. Virgil asked the men to surrender and throw up their hands, and he says, I have come to disarm you, but Billy and Frank go for their guns. So I as what EERP draw and fire at Frank. But the first shots are my shot and Billy Clanton's shot, so we're both at the same time. I didn't provoke them, they didn't provoke me. We both shot at each other, and after several shots, I Clanton runs up grabs my arm. I push him off and never fire at him, because again I've been told he's unarmed, So I'm just acting in self defense here. This is not my fault. And I thought that Tom mcclowry was armed, we all did he and though he wasn't, and Doc Holiday killed him, So maybe Doc shouldn't have done that, But again I was acting in self defense. Just how it went down right? Right? All right? Well, as like Clinton, I have a different version of events. Uh. For one thing, back of the saloon, Doc Holiday started all the trouble it wasn't me provoking him, It was all on Doc and Morgan RP. Instead of being this neutral party who throws both of us out, he joins in to to curse, curse me out and threatens me all right. The next day the Earps arrest me like Clinton, take me to court on false charges of threatening a gunfight, and Morgan and Virgil continue to taunt me and threaten me and Um. Later I see the Earps and Holiday coming down the street, with being meeting them, telling them not to go down there, but with all my brothers and my cowboys by now. And when the Earps and Holiday come up they pull out their guns. Virgil or curses us and says, you've been looking for a fight and you can have it. Those are fighting words, aren't they. Um? And the Earth's order us to throw up our hands, and Billy Clinton does I do. Tom mcclowry throws open his coat, says he's disarmed, and then the shooting starts. We have our hands up in the air where all defenseless, and the Earth's Holiday are shooting at us, and Doc Holiday fires the first shot at Tom mcclowry. Morgan shoots at Billy Clinton, while he's holding up his hands wide up shoots at me, and then I grab him and push him and finally escaped to flies photo gallery with bullets whizzing around my head. And Billy Clinton is shooting a little bit as he lays on the ground. So when all has said and done, this gunfight has lasted only thirty seconds. And at the end, Frank mclawry is dead, Tom mcclowry is dead, Billy Clanton is dying, and Doc Holiday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan erb are all wounded. And Sheriff Ban tries to arrest Wyatt, and Doc Wyatt says no, he thought the guys were unarmed, because the sheriff had told him after all, and the citizens on the scene stood stood with what And the newspapers have a field day with this. Hundreds of people show up to the funerals and thousands come to watch the procession, which in a city of seven thousand is saying a lot. And Doc Holiday was generally thought of as a hothead, and people thought he shouldn't be involved in upholding a law, period, So why was he even there? And by October twenty nine, Clan Inspired filed first green murder charges, so we have a preliminary hearing with the Justice of the Peace, Well Spicer, And it should have been a short little thing, you know, a preliminary hearing is just a prelude to a real trial. But it ended up lasting longer than a month because the herbs that he might be sympathetic to them, more sympathetic than a random jury would be. And this trial is crazy. It's just all these different testimonies, all the different feuds going on. It makes everything really suspect. So we'll just give some highlights. Basically, the prosecution was trying to prove that their men had been shot before they ever even had a chance to get their guns while they had their hands in the year right. Probably the most important testimony for the prosecution was was Sheriff Bean, who said that he asked for Frank mcglory's gun repeatedly, but he was interrupted by the arrival of the earths. And as far as the defense goes, they took a trickier attack. Why it got to give a narrative instead of being examined and cross examined, a little quirk of Arizona law. So he went up there and and gave his testimony and said he was acting in self defense as a man of the law. And Virgil was actually examined while he was in bed and recovery because he was still wounded, and said that he tried to calm down Ike the night before the morning of the shootout, a bunch of people had told him that Ike and the crew were after him and wanted to kill him and his brothers. And he also said that they would have left the Clantons and mcclowry's alone if they had stayed in the corral. So we have all these different witnesses giving different accounts, but in the end, Judge Spicer rules that there would be no criminal trial. He says that the Earths were profoundly unwise the way they went about disarming the cowboys, but nothing criminal happened, And he also mentioned that the Clantons mcclowery should have given up their guns because for them, they don't like this verdict the Clantons and mcclowry's. So then takes place what's called the Cowboy revenge, And the first is an assassination attempt in a stage coach of the mayor who had been sympathetic to the Earth's and he jumps out to escape his own demise is the wild West, folks, right, um. The second thing is Virgil is ambushed when he's walking home from a saloon. One of the men who ambush is him was Ike because his hat was found on the scene, so it's an important tip don't leave your hat an assassination attempt. And Virgil isn't killed, but his arm is shot so full of buck shot that it's left practically a mobile. And then Morgan is shot through a window during a game of pool and dies and his last words are, I have played my last game of Pool's pretty deep. I think there's some good last words. So in response to this, why Earp starts his famous and then dead a ride. He kills Frank Stillwell, who was a suspect in Morgan's murder. He kills Indian Charlie and Curly Brocius, another suspect. And after you've just gone and killed three people who were never rested or anything in any way, there are a bunch of warrant out for wide Ears arrest. So he runs off to New Mexico and then to Colorado with Doc Holiday and Arizona wanted him extradited, but the State of Colorado refused this request and why it goes on to live a nice long life, doesn't he He does. He married and Ms Josephine from earlier and um. He has a varied career. He referees heavyweight boxing matches. He minds for gold, sells real estate, raised racehorses, ran saloons. He even appeared on the sets of early Hollywood westerns, which is fitting considering there have been so many TV shows and movies about him, although many of them seemed to portray him in a much more golden light than perhaps we have. Yeah, like, maybe they just read his testimony and not so much. Yours porite Clinton and sorry so. If you'd like to learn more about US Marshals and Wild Wild West and check out our blog on the site's homepage, go to www dot how stuff works dot com. For more on this and thousands of other topics, visit how stuff works dot com. Let us know what you think. Send an email to podcast at how stuff works dot com, and be sure to check out the stuff you missed in History Class blog on the how stuff works dot com home page.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how Stuff Works dot com. Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Katie Lambert, joined today by Sarah Dowdy. How are you, Sarah, I'm good, Katie. I'm excited about this gun fight. Well, and thank you to the listener who sent us in the request. John in South Saint Paul, Minnesota said he could not wait to hear all about the gunfight at the Okay Corral. So we're gonna do a little with busting and um go through the shootout. Yeah. So our story takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, which was a boom town in the eighteen eighties and probably if it wasn't for this gunfight, it would be a ghost town today. But um in the in eighteen seventy nine, prospector finds silver um and he's warned by a passing soldier that the only thing you're going to find in those hills as your own tombstone. And he showed him, didn't he. The town grew from one hundred people to seven thousand people in two years because of all the silver mining, and it was quite the place for a lot of rough and lawless horse wrestlers, bandits. They had a big red light district, lots of saloons and bars. And there are two key parties in Tombstone in eighteen eighteen eighty one, the Earps and the cowboys. And you've probably heard of the Herbs because of Whyatt Earp, but it wasn't just him. He had some brothers. Why It worked a security at a saloon. James was a car dealer in a bartender and his brother's Virgil and Morgan, guarded stage coaches. And Virgil was also a deputy U s Marshal while Wyatt was a deputy sheriff. And the cowboys, on the other hand, were pretty lawless, not the heroes of movies that we don't think they were hill racing. We've got Clanton and Bill Clinton, who are especially notorious, and we have Tom and Frank mclowery, two sets of brothers who liked hanging out with horse wrestler. So the trouble starts in a summer of eighteen eighty when Virgil Earp goes to his brother's Wyatt and Morgan and says that there were men who stole six mules from an army outpost. So they go on the lookout and they find the horses at the mcclowery ranch and the brands have been changed so they no longer look like they belonged to the army. And Frank mcclawery is having none of it and tells him, you know, he's just a deputy u s Marshal and get off my properties your concern and not accepting the legal positions. So a little bit of trouble starts there, Yeah, and troubles bruin on another front, with Wyatt Earp going up against Johnny Bean, who is kind of a cowboy type more than the law abiding type, over a woman Josephine Marcus, and over the sheriff position, right, and Josephine first picked Johnny, but she ended up married to Wyatt for about fifty years. That wasn't until later, but both men wanted to be appointed sheriff of the state, because that's how that worked, and whyatt ended up dropping out of the race because he could tell the governor was leaning much more towards Johnny, and Johnny told him that he would give him a lesser appointment, so he thought, okay, you know, I'll drop out, and that didn't work out. So these guys have been gripped in a professional and romantic competition. So there's a lot of resentment from the start. Yes, So in March of one the Tombstone Benson's stage coach is held up and twenty six thousand dollars of stolen, and the driver and the passenger are both killed, and Virgil Earp ends up leading a posse to hunt down the people who robbed it, and he brings in his brothers of course, Wyatt and Morgan, along with Doc Holiday, who I'm sure everyone has heard of him. I didn't know this, but he used to be a dent which and he was how related to Margaret Mitchell, which I found out when I was touring the Hop from Georgia. Anyways, Doc holidays in Virgil Earp's posse. Um Sheriff Being also leads a posse. The Earth Group finds a guy who confesses to this stagecoach hold up, though, and they turn him over to the sheriff. He ends up escaping. There's some question as to whether his jail cell is even locked, did be in just let him escape and why it. Obviously, no fan of Being suspects that he might have been in on it right, and his past doesn't even Yeah, they don't even get their reward, so they're they're pretty piste off at this point. So according to the story, whyatt Earp makes a deal with Ike Clanton of the infamous Clintons that we mentioned earlier, and he says that if Ike will give him information about who did the robbery, then why it will make sure that he gets the reward from well spargoward. And these are two guys who would want to have no professional association with each other, you wouldn't They neither would want their name linked to the other. One is the semi law abiding man, the other's the cowboy U. So this deal is very under the table. Well, and whyatt thought that way he could make the arrest and he would look good, you know, unlike Johnny Bean and Clanton just wanted the money and or to set up a trap for why the part still unshore. Unfortunately, the actual robbers of the stagecoach are killed in a gunfight in New Mexico, so the deal isn't even there's no point. So in October of eight one, Clanton and Doc Holiday, which remember on opposite sides of this particular conflict, are both at the Alhambra Saloon. And historians don't know whether Clanton planned this meeting because he wanted reassurance that why it wasn't going to turn him in, or if Whyatt set it up to scare Ike into behaving because Doc Holiday was not the kind of man you wanted to mess with. But either way, the meeting does not go well and the two start trading insults and they end up both getting kicked out by security um interestingly enough, Morgan Earp Uh and the confrontation kind of carries on through the night though, even though they're no longer in the saloon, Right and Ike ends up in an all night poker game at another saloon with Johnny b. N, Virgil Earp, and Tomic Lowry, which it is quite the motley crew because again they're all in opposite sides, and it just keeps going, the trading of insults and death threats. Even right Ike is. Ike is saying some pretty nasty stuff about the Earth's all around town and the next morning he's still talking about Doc Holiday and the Earps and they find out and they're not pleased now and they actually end up arresting him up for illegally carrying a firearm in public, which seems like kind of a low blow because they were all doing that and they just wanted a pretense. Yeah, definitely, um and Wider joins into the party to taunt Ike and just this he calls him a damn dirty calfie. So the whole thing is escalating out of control, and even why it runs into Tom mclowery, one of the other cowboys when he's leaving the courtroom and wax him over the head with his gun. So you know, the lawmen are not doing their part to to bring the turn the fire down on this fight that's brewing well, and news is traveling fast. So Billy Clinton and Frank mcclowry here about everything that's going on, and they decide they're having none of it, and they buy a bunch of bullets and set up a meeting and a vacant lot on Fremont Street, which isn't actually at the Okay Corral to discuss their plans. And when Sheriff Ban finds out about this, he knows that this is not going to end well, so he heads off to Fremont Street to meet them and tries to get Frank mclowry's gun. Frank won't let the sheriff disarm him until the Earths are disarmed, which that's a I don't know, it's a hotheaded response. Yes, it's not really very acceptable. Um, but Ike is padded down, he doesn't have a weapon. Tom says he's unarmed. Billy is just like I'm heading out of town and the sheriff doesn't even bother to check him. At this point, the Earth's and doc Holiday are on their way and the sheriff tells them not to go or they'll be killed. But he also tells them that he's disarmed the men, which makes no sense. It is really weird because he didn't well and it's too totally contradictory statements. So this is where it all begins. And there are two versions of events that were given at the trial. So Katie and are going to have a show down here. I will be playing the part of why at Earth and I will be like Lanton. So Wyatt Earp says that the mcclowry's and the Clinton and the Clantons are still upset about these stolen mules, and they've been making threats for months, and he makes this deal with I Clanton over stage coach killings, which we had mentioned, and on October twenty six, Doc Holiday and I Clanton got into that fight and they were separated by the RBS. And then he says that I continued to threaten him throughout the night, and the next morning all the brothers here that he's still threatening them, so they arrest him and bring him to court. Tom mcclowry starts threatening them, so why it hits him on the head and walks away. So he says this was a provoked attack, and he meets up with his brothers and Doc Holiday and here's what. The mcclowry's and Clantons are armed and they've gone to the Okay Corral. So at this point the brothers are thinking about arming themselves, but Virgil asks for help disarming them, so instead he's trying to paint their intentions as going into the with purely innocent attentions and let's disarm these dangerous, violen men. So they walk in that direction and the sheriff walks up to the earps and says, hey, the men have been disarmed. You know, there's no danger here. And when they see the men in the lot Frank mclowry and Billy Clanton have visible guns, so you know, being wyatt EARP, I am a bit alarmed, and I decided to get ready to take out mine. Virgil asked the men to surrender and throw up their hands, and he says, I have come to disarm you, but Billy and Frank go for their guns. So I as what EERP draw and fire at Frank. But the first shots are my shot and Billy Clanton's shot, so we're both at the same time. I didn't provoke them, they didn't provoke me. We both shot at each other, and after several shots, I Clanton runs up grabs my arm. I push him off and never fire at him, because again I've been told he's unarmed, So I'm just acting in self defense here. This is not my fault. And I thought that Tom mcclowry was armed, we all did he and though he wasn't, and Doc Holiday killed him, So maybe Doc shouldn't have done that, But again I was acting in self defense. Just how it went down right? Right? All right? Well, as like Clinton, I have a different version of events. Uh. For one thing, back of the saloon, Doc Holiday started all the trouble it wasn't me provoking him, It was all on Doc and Morgan RP. Instead of being this neutral party who throws both of us out, he joins in to to curse, curse me out and threatens me all right. The next day the Earps arrest me like Clinton, take me to court on false charges of threatening a gunfight, and Morgan and Virgil continue to taunt me and threaten me and Um. Later I see the Earps and Holiday coming down the street, with being meeting them, telling them not to go down there, but with all my brothers and my cowboys by now. And when the Earps and Holiday come up they pull out their guns. Virgil or curses us and says, you've been looking for a fight and you can have it. Those are fighting words, aren't they. Um? And the Earth's order us to throw up our hands, and Billy Clinton does I do. Tom mcclowry throws open his coat, says he's disarmed, and then the shooting starts. We have our hands up in the air where all defenseless, and the Earth's Holiday are shooting at us, and Doc Holiday fires the first shot at Tom mcclowry. Morgan shoots at Billy Clinton, while he's holding up his hands wide up shoots at me, and then I grab him and push him and finally escaped to flies photo gallery with bullets whizzing around my head. And Billy Clinton is shooting a little bit as he lays on the ground. So when all has said and done, this gunfight has lasted only thirty seconds. And at the end, Frank mclawry is dead, Tom mcclowry is dead, Billy Clanton is dying, and Doc Holiday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan erb are all wounded. And Sheriff Ban tries to arrest Wyatt, and Doc Wyatt says no, he thought the guys were unarmed, because the sheriff had told him after all, and the citizens on the scene stood stood with what And the newspapers have a field day with this. Hundreds of people show up to the funerals and thousands come to watch the procession, which in a city of seven thousand is saying a lot. And Doc Holiday was generally thought of as a hothead, and people thought he shouldn't be involved in upholding a law, period, So why was he even there? And by October twenty nine, Clan Inspired filed first green murder charges, so we have a preliminary hearing with the Justice of the Peace, Well Spicer, And it should have been a short little thing, you know, a preliminary hearing is just a prelude to a real trial. But it ended up lasting longer than a month because the herbs that he might be sympathetic to them, more sympathetic than a random jury would be. And this trial is crazy. It's just all these different testimonies, all the different feuds going on. It makes everything really suspect. So we'll just give some highlights. Basically, the prosecution was trying to prove that their men had been shot before they ever even had a chance to get their guns while they had their hands in the year right. Probably the most important testimony for the prosecution was was Sheriff Bean, who said that he asked for Frank mcglory's gun repeatedly, but he was interrupted by the arrival of the earths. And as far as the defense goes, they took a trickier attack. Why it got to give a narrative instead of being examined and cross examined, a little quirk of Arizona law. So he went up there and and gave his testimony and said he was acting in self defense as a man of the law. And Virgil was actually examined while he was in bed and recovery because he was still wounded, and said that he tried to calm down Ike the night before the morning of the shootout, a bunch of people had told him that Ike and the crew were after him and wanted to kill him and his brothers. And he also said that they would have left the Clantons and mcclowry's alone if they had stayed in the corral. So we have all these different witnesses giving different accounts, but in the end, Judge Spicer rules that there would be no criminal trial. He says that the Earths were profoundly unwise the way they went about disarming the cowboys, but nothing criminal happened, And he also mentioned that the Clantons mcclowery should have given up their guns because for them, they don't like this verdict the Clantons and mcclowry's. So then takes place what's called the Cowboy revenge, And the first is an assassination attempt in a stage coach of the mayor who had been sympathetic to the Earth's and he jumps out to escape his own demise is the wild West, folks, right, um. The second thing is Virgil is ambushed when he's walking home from a saloon. One of the men who ambush is him was Ike because his hat was found on the scene, so it's an important tip don't leave your hat an assassination attempt. And Virgil isn't killed, but his arm is shot so full of buck shot that it's left practically a mobile. And then Morgan is shot through a window during a game of pool and dies and his last words are, I have played my last game of Pool's pretty deep. I think there's some good last words. So in response to this, why Earp starts his famous and then dead a ride. He kills Frank Stillwell, who was a suspect in Morgan's murder. He kills Indian Charlie and Curly Brocius, another suspect. And after you've just gone and killed three people who were never rested or anything in any way, there are a bunch of warrant out for wide Ears arrest. So he runs off to New Mexico and then to Colorado with Doc Holiday and Arizona wanted him extradited, but the State of Colorado refused this request and why it goes on to live a nice long life, doesn't he He does. He married and Ms Josephine from earlier and um. He has a varied career. He referees heavyweight boxing matches. He minds for gold, sells real estate, raised racehorses, ran saloons. He even appeared on the sets of early Hollywood westerns, which is fitting considering there have been so many TV shows and movies about him, although many of them seemed to portray him in a much more golden light than perhaps we have. Yeah, like, maybe they just read his testimony and not so much. Yours porite Clinton and sorry so. If you'd like to learn more about US Marshals and Wild Wild West and check out our blog on the site's homepage, go to www dot how stuff works dot com. For more on this and thousands of other topics, visit how stuff works dot com. Let us know what you think. Send an email to podcast at how stuff works dot com, and be sure to check out the stuff you missed in History Class blog on the how stuff works dot com home page.