Tombstone, Arizona

This is the burial place of the Clanton Gang




Wow, wonder what is Illegal hanging then ....

Well, what is there to say about this then, as a child watching some ledgendary Western movies, Gunfight at the OK Corral was one of my Dad's favourites and i have been lucky enough to be able to stand on the site of the Gun Battle itself then move along to the Cemetery where the victims were buried, the also legendary Boot Hill Cemetery.

Tombstone was made famous as the place where a feud between rival families the Earps' and the Clantons' came to a head on october 26th 1881 resulting in the famous Gun Battle where Marshall Wyatt Earp along with Doc Holliday, Brothers Morgan and Virgil came face to face with the men who Hated them, Frank and Thomas McClaury, with Brothers Billy and Ike Clanton.

Approximately 30 shots were fired in a matter of seconds and it was all over, Billy, Thomas and Frank died where they fell, and are buried in Boothill Cemetery, Ike was killed resisting arrest 6 years later.

Morgan Earp was killed from an Ambush while playing Pool in a Saloon March 18th 1882, buried in California.

Virgil Earp died of Pneumonia in Nevada October 19th 1905, buried in Oregon.

Doc Holliday died from Tubercolosis in a Hotel in Colorado November 8th 1887.

Wyatt Earp himself died from er... *cof Chronic Cystitis January 13th 1929, LA California, buried in the Hills of Eternity, Colmas, California.
He outlived them all long enough to tell his version of the Gunfight without fear of being disputed