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| Timeline of events leading up to the shootout at the O.K. Corral |
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| Written by Luke Money |
| Thursday, 03 November 2011 03:19 |
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October 26, 1881
Dawn: A card game between Virgil Earp, Ike Clanton, Tom McLaury, and Cochise County Sherriff Johnny Behan at Fly’s Lodging House ends. Earp and Behan go home, Clanton stays and drinks until 8 a.m. 8 a.m.: Clanton runs into E.F. Boyle, a barkeeper, outside the town telegraph office. Boyle later testifies that Clanton was armed and swearing vengeance on the Earps and Doc Holliday. 1 p.m.: Wyatt Earp pistol-whips Ike Clanton for being armed in town. Clanton is dragged to court and fined $25.
2 p.m.: 19-year-old Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury arrive into town to back up their brothers. They meet briefly with Holliday, who gives them the details of the events surround Ike Clanton. 2:30 p.m.: Ike and Billy Clanton, and Frank and Tom McLaury gather near Fly’s boarding house, close to Fremont Street.
3 p.m.: The gunfight breaks out. Billy Clanton and the McLaurys are killed, while Holliday and Virgil and Morgan Earp are wounded. 
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