Not so. Public opinion was divided over the matter, especially after Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan testified in court that he witnessed the cowboys try to surrender peacefully. However, even the sheriff had loyalties in this small town. She left Behan after finding him in bed with another woman, but no doubt this contributed to the animosity betweens the Earps and Behan. Also read: This Civil War vet was the real hero of the O. Corral shootout. This article originally appeared on Explore The Archive.
On Nov. The gunfight did not actually take place at the O. The police may not have been the good guys.
Which brings us to our next point … 4. The gunfight at the O. The gunfight only lasted 30 seconds. Many of the townspeople sympathized with the cowboys. Corral shootout This article originally appeared on Explore The Archive. On March 24, that bunch rode into Contention, and a witness reported that the Charleston contingent was well mounted, well armed and hunting for the Earp posse.
The afternoon of the 24th was warm, and Wyatt loosened his cartridge belt as he led his men toward Iron Springs. To his surprise he did not find Charlie Smith but a gang of Cowboys, who opened fire without warning.
Earp jumped from his horse with a shotgun in his hands, while McMaster, Johnson and Doc Holliday wheeled their horses and sought cover. Earp then returned fire and blasted Brocius with his double-barrel shotgun, almost cutting the Cowboy in two. Amid the gun smoke and mayhem, Wyatt pulled up his cartridge belt and attempted to mount his horse while taking fire from the remaining Cowboys.
He fired in their general direction as Cowboy bullets struck the pommel of his saddle and the heel of his boot. One slug hit with such force that Earp believed he had been wounded. He somehow managed to partially mount his horse and scampered back to safety, picking up Texas Jack Vermillion as he went. The posse rested, counted their blessings and then rode back toward Tombstone. Although debate raged in the Tombstone newspapers, Earp always maintained he had blasted Brocius, and the fact remained that Curly Bill was never seen in Tombstone again.
That task would eventually fall to Dan Tipton. In any case, on March 26 Earp and his men rode out to Dragoon Summit Station, where they stopped an eastbound train at 1 p. Whether they expected to find a messenger with additional funds, or Ike Clanton himself, is not exactly clear. The Earp posse arrived at Sierra Bonita on March Gage for the posse.
Lou Cooley, a stage driver and likely Wells Fargo operative, also provided the Earp posse with additional funds, from the express company. Wyatt and his seven men now had traveling money and fresh horses. From their vantage point, they could see the approach of any riders from rival posses, and they waited for a possible confrontation. It never came. Sheriff Behan and his men eventually arrived at Sierra Bonita, but they were refused assistance. According to one report, Hooker mockingly told Behan where to find the Earps, but the sheriff rode off in the opposite direction.
The eight-man Earp posse remained in the area for a few more days, but the so-called Vendetta had run its course. With two hostile posses on their trail, Wyatt and his men were outnumbered and knew it would be extremely dangerous to stay in Arizona any longer. They spent one night in the home of a friend, and the next day sold their horses and saddles, before taking a stage to Deming.
From there they traveled by train to Albuquerque and made plans to move to the relative safety of Colorado. Charlie Smith parted company with the group in Silver City and headed back to make Tombstone his home.
He was the only member of the Earp posse to do so. Once in Colorado, the posse fragmented. Doc Holliday went to Denver, while Johnson and McMaster probably reunited with their respective brothers in Leadville.
The men had found their sanctuary, as Colorado Governor Frederick Pitkin refused extradition requests from the Arizona territorial authorities. In time, the law did catch up with some of the surviving Cowboys. Johnny Ringo was shot dead — some say by his own hand — in July , while Ike Clanton was gunned down in resisting arrest.
Johnny Barnes was said to have died of wounds sustained at the Iron Springs shootout, while Pete Spence, Fin Clanton and Pony Diehl were eventually convicted of various crimes and all did time in state penitentiaries. Peter Brand, from Australia, has done extensive research on the Vendetta see his Web site www.
This article originally appeared in the March issue of Wild West magazine. For more great articles be sure to subscribe to Wild West magazine today! Gambling was illegal in Seattle in , but three gambling houses existed in a combine run by gambling kingpin John Considine. The established gamblers paid their fines to the city and county and were prepared to crush anyone who dared enter their territory and open up a gambling house.
The Seattle Star ran the following item on November 25 about the new gambler in town:. Since then he had been mostly a capitalist—saloon keeper, gambler, horse breeder, boxing referee, etc.
The Seattle Daily Times had a different approach. Fitzsimmons had knocked Sharkey out. Wyatt, among others, was accused of fraud by the Fitzsimmons side.
Wyatt Earp took on a partner in his new Seattle venture, Thomas Urquhart. He was a well-known sporting man in Seattle and had supposedly been around the area for several years. South, near Yesler Way. Urquhart would continue to run the Union Club after Earp went back to Alaska in the spring or summer of Upon learning that Earp intended to open a gambling house, the Considine combine sent a representative to inform Wyatt that he should take his interests outside of Seattle.
The gamblers suggested if he really did intend to open in Seattle, he should check with Police Chief C. The assumption on their part was that Reed would not find Earp acceptable. Gambling had been shut down in Seattle in April , but in September it had been reopened with John Considine as leader of the gambling trust. While gambling was still illegal, it was permitted under certain conditions. The leading gamblers laid down the rules during a September meeting in the office of Police Chief Reed, and these rules were in place two months later when partners Earp and Urquhart opened their doors:.
When business must close at midnight. The city was reaping a bountiful harvest in fines, and the gambling houses employed about 1, men. Many times running into people that wanted to prove themselves by taking him down. The price on his head was large and carried a big reputation. He had a strong relationship with Wyatt Earp. Wyatt and Doc would become friends after Doc shot down the two men who had planned to hang him.
They later would become most famous for their showdown at the O. No one succeeded in killing Doc in all his years including the law. Although he claimed that he almost lost his life nine times, four attempts to hang and ambushed five others. He spent his last fifty-seven days in bed. On November 8, , he awoke and asked for a glass of whiskey. It was given to him and he drank it down with enjoyment.
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