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 had been properly deputized by Virgil Earp. The public perceptions were controversial concerning the Earp brothers' actions, and especially those of Wyatt. Even today, the brothers have strongly opinionated admirers and detractors. A hand-drawn sketch of the gunfight was made by John Flood with Wyatt Earp's assistance on September 15, 1921; it was sold at auction in October 2010 for $380,000. The map describes the position of a number of witnesses and all of the participants with the exception of Ike Clanton, who fled from the gunfight. In 1952, Victor Clyde Forsythe, a popular painter of desert scenes and cowboy