Ford met Wyatt Earp, a real-life Western figure who supplied the My Darling Clementine director with a real-life account of the Gunfight at O.K. Corral. Although Earp is a first-hand source ...

Account of the gunfight at the OK Corral in the town of Tombstone in the Arizona Territory, as chronicled in this copy of the Tombstone Daily Nugget dated Nov. 24, 1881 ($5,000). $1,000 federal ...

The mythologizing of the Old West had few bigger beneficiaries than Wyatt ... Earp as not just a hero but a player in a drama ...

Since the earliest days of film and television, Wyatt Earp has personified the ultimate Western outlaw hero. Dozens of productions have told his story, and still more have characters based on him.