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
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