On October 26, 1881 in the quickly booming town of Tombstone in the Arizona
Territory, there occured what is probably the best know gunfight in history:
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
"Three Men Hurled into Eternity in the Duration of a
Moment."
This is an authentic looking replica of the page from the Tombstone Epitaph
featuring the O.K. Corral article, written the same day of the fight, and released
the following day. This sheet was specially aged to look like it has
survived these last 120 years... but just barely. The entire sheet is ledgable,
measuring about sixteen by eleven inches.
Although
closer to Fly's Photography Studio than to the corral, this battle was given
its name from an Eastern newspaper, making it an overnight legend! Read
the first article written about this historic event for yourself. Written by
John Clum, close friend to Wyatt Earp, this article staunchly
defends the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.
Not only can you read all about the shootout, which ironically only takes up
two columns of the text-full sheet, but you can also enjoy the numerous advertisements
from Old West. Each column, each letter and each line has been carefully reproduced
from the original.
Shown below is an aged replica of a letter written by Wyatt's brother,
Virgil Earp, to the Mayor and Council of Tombstone requesting
that the police force be reduced from six to two officers. This letter was written
only weeks before the shoot-out, the event which cost Virgil his job as city
marshal.
These two pieces of Western history look great together or seperately in a frame,
or tacked to an old piece of wood. Either way, these make beautiful decorations
and conversation pieces for the collector of history or lover of the Old West.