On This Day In History Legendary Wild West Gunman Doc Holliday Killed For The First Time

As History.com notes, on this day in 1879 legendary gunman Doc Holliday killed his first man.

Doc Holliday killed commits his first murder, killing a man for shooting up his New Mexico saloon.

Despite his formidable reputation as a deadly gunslinger, Doc Holliday only engaged in eight shootouts during his life, and it has only been verified that he killed two men. Still, the smartly dressed ex-dentist from Atlanta had a remarkably fearless attitude toward death and danger, perhaps because he was slowly dying from tuberculosis.

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Note: Above is a photo of actor Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in one of my favorite films Tombstone. 

On This Day In History: The Gunfight At The O.K. Corral

As History.com notes, it was on this day in history that the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral was fought.

As On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.  After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless. The Clantons and McLaurys were cowboys who lived on a ranch outside of town and sidelined as cattle rustlers, thieves and murderers. In October 1881, the struggle between these two groups for control of Tombstone and Cochise County ended in a blaze of gunfire at the OK Corral.

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Review Of PBS' "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Last Outlaws"

Gerald D. Swick, my friend and former editor at GreatHistory.com, offers a review of the PBS documentary Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Last Outlaws for Historynet.com.

If you are one of the millions who loves the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, you owe it to yourself to watch the one-hour American Experience documentary, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Last Outlaws. It fills in a good bit of information and provides a deeper appreciation for what the movie got right historically within an entertainment medium. The gregarious Cassidy and taciturn Sundance of the 1969 film reflect the true personalities of the two, for example.

The American Experience documentary sets the scene effectively within the opening minutes. The story begins with the Wilcox Robbery, when Butch's gang used too much dynamite and blew a safe in a railroad mail car into the middle of next week. That robbery is what made Butch famous, but as the narration points out, he and the outlaw gang he led, the Wild Bunch, was operating at the end of an era. The railroads had become determined to put an end to holdups, and the dogged pursuit that followed the Wilcox Robbery sent Butch and Sundance to South America and, ultimately, to their doom.

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Legendary Western Lawman Wyatt Earp Was Born On This Date In 1848

As Biography.com notes, Wyatt Earp was born on this date in 1848.

One of the icons of the American West, he worked for the law and helped tame the wild cowboy culture that pervaded the frontier. In Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt got into a feud with a local rancher that resulted in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, perhaps the most famous gunfight in American history. Earp died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.

You can read the rest of the piece and watch a short video clip about Wyatt Earp's fight a the O.K. Corral via the below link:

http://www.biography.com/people/wyatt-earp-9283338

You can also learn more about more about Wyatt Earp by reading Casey Tefertiller's Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend.

Wyatt Earp, Legendary Western Lawman, Died On This Day In 1929

As Biography.com notes, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp died on this day in 1929.

Wyatt Earp was born March 19, 1848. One of the icons of the American West, he worked for the law and helped tame the wild cowboy culture that pervaded the frontier. In Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt got into a feud with a local rancher that resulted in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, perhaps the most famous gunfight in American history. Earp died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.

You can read the rest of the piece and watch a short video clip via the below link:

http://www.biography.com/people/wyatt-earp-9283338

You can learn more about Wyatt Earp by reading Casey Teferiller's Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend.