History of Arizona in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight of the Old West. In the aftermath, Virgil Earp was maimed in an ambush and Morgan Earp was assassinated while playing billiards. Walter Noble Burns's novel "Tombstone" (1927) made Earp famous. Hollywood celebrated Earp's Tombstone days with John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" (1946), John Sturges's "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957) and "Hour of the Gun" (1967), Frank Perry's "Doc" (1971), George Cosmatos's "Tombstone" (1993), and Lawrence Kasdan's "Wyatt Earp" (1994). They solidified Earp's modern reputation as the Old West's deadliest gunman. Jennie Bauters (1862–1905) operated brothels in the
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral the painting and other contents of the museum were sold at auction by John's Western Gallery of San Francisco. The estimated auction price for the painting had been $200,000 to $300,000; the final sale price on June 25, 2004 was $40,250. It was put up for auction again on June 14, 2014 with an estimated selling price of $40,000–$60,000 but failed to sell. Less than a month after the shootout it was described by a local newspaper as the "Gunfight at The O.K. Corral". William Breakenridge in his 1928 book "Helldorado: Bringing Law to the Mesquite" described it as "The