Video: 'The Messed Up Truth About The Gunfight At The O.K. Corral'

(Wednesday, October 26, 1881, about 3:00 p.m. local time) — The “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” took place this afternoon in Tombstone, Arizona, as Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and “Doc” Holliday confronted Ike Clanton’s gang.

Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed.

Video: '26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp'

The shootout has come to represent a period of the American Old West when the frontier was virtually an open range for outlaws, largely unopposed by law enforcement officers who were spread thin over vast territories.