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
The Gunfighter turned it down, despite having expressed a strong desire to play the part, because of his longstanding hatred for Columbia's president, Harry Cohn. Columbia sold the rights to Twentieth Century Fox, where the role went to Peck. Wayne's final film, "The Shootist" (1976), is often compared to "The Gunfighter" and contains numerous plot similarities. The script was loosely based on the purported exploits of an actual western gunfighter named Johnny Ringo, a distant cousin of the outlaw Younger family and a purported survivor of the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral against Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers. As in