Big Fight at the Jenkins Saloon hand as a gold prospector. He died in April 1942. The gunfight at Tascosa is little-known today, but at the time it was more famous than the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, having similar causes and involving more fatalities than the shootout at Tombstone, Arizona. Big Fight at the Jenkins Saloon The Big Fight at the Jenkins Saloon, also known as the Tascosa Gunfight or simply the Big Fight, was an incident that took place in the Old West town of Tascosa, Texas, on March 21, 1886, between members of two Texas Panhandle ranch factions: the LS Ranch's Home Rangers
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film) Frankie Laine, pushes the movie's momentum relentlessly throughout. Members of the Western Writers of America chose the song "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Sturges revisited the same material a decade later when he directed a more historically accurate sequel of sorts, "Hour of the Gun", starring James Garner as Wyatt Earp, Jason Robards as Doc Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Ike Clanton. That film begins with a more accurate version of the O.K. Corral gun battle, then moves forward into the aftermath for the balance of the movie. The