It was not well known to the American public until 1931, when Stuart Lake published the initially well-received biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal two years after Earp's death. The shootout has come to represent a period of the Old West when the frontier was virtually an open range for outlaws, largely unopposed by lawmen who were spread thin over vast territories. Wyatt was only a temporary assistant marshal to his brother. Virgil made the decision to enforce a city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in town and to disarm the Cowboys. Marshal that day and had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier in combat. Wyatt is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was Tombstone's Town Marshal and Deputy U.S. Virgil, Morgan, and Holliday were wounded, but Wyatt was unharmed. Ike Clanton, Billy Claiborne, and Wes Fuller ran from the fight. Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed. Marshal and Town Marshal Virgil Earp, his two brothers and Special Policemen Morgan and Wyatt Earp, and temporary policeman Doc Holliday. Cowboys Billy Claiborne, brothers Ike and Billy Clanton, and brothers Tom and Frank McLaury were on one side. The gunfight was the result of a long-simmering feud. It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the American Old West. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States. Corral was a thirty-second shootout between lawmen led by Virgil Earp and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys that occurred at about 3:00 p.m.
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