O.K. Corral (building) The gunfight took place within the narrow lot and on Fremont Street. The O.K. Corral at 326 Allen Street is within the Tombstone Historic District. Investors from Detroit, Michigan, led by attorney Harold O. Love, purchased the O.K. Corral, along with "The Tombstone Epitaph" newspaper, the Crystal Palace Saloon, and Schieffelin Hall in 1964. , the Love family continues to operate the O.K. Corral as a historic site. The museum property extends from the Allen Street frontage northward to Fremont Street, including the land where the historic gunfight began. The narrow lot where much of the gunfight took place is
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral open range for outlaws, largely unopposed by law enforcement officers who were spread thin over vast territories. The gunfight was not well known to the American public until 1931, when Stuart Lake published the initially well-received biography "" two years after Earp's death. The book was the basis for the 1946 film "My Darling Clementine", directed by John Ford, and the 1957 film "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", after which the shootout became known by that name. Since then, the conflict has been portrayed with varying degrees of accuracy in numerous Western films and books, and has become an archetype