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" The Earps walked westerly across Fremont street and came into full view of the Cowboys.
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Earps and walked
The Earps pursued the other two men for 17 days, riding for 60 hours without food and 36 hours without water, during which Bob Paul's horse died, and Wyatt and Morgan's horses became so weak, that the two men walked back to Tombstone to obtain new horses.
The Earps and Holliday walked west, down the south side of Fremont Street, out of visual range of the Cowboys, toward the Cowboys ' last reported location.
Earps and across
She testified that when the Earp party passed by her location, one of the Earps on the outside of that party looked across and said to Doc Holliday nearest the store, "... let them have it!
Earps and street
Boyle later testified he noticed Ike was armed and covered his gun for him, recalling that Ike told him "' As soon as the Earps and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street, the ball would open — that they would have to fight '...
Boyle later testified he noticed Ike was armed and covered his gun for him, recalling that Ike told him "' As soon as the Earps and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street, the ball would open — that they would have to fight '...
Earps and came
The Earps saw the Cowboys and Sheriff Behan, who left the group and came toward them, though he looked nervously backward several times.
Earps and into
After repeated threats against the Earps by the Cowboys over many months, the conflict escalated into a confrontation that turned into a shootout, the now-famous Gunfight at the O. K.
Earps and Cowboys
The Cowboys maintained that they raised their hands, offering no resistance, and were shot in cold blood by the Earps.
The ranchers largely maintained control of the country around Tombstone, due in large part to the sympathetic support of Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan who favored the Cowboys and rural ranchers and who grew to intensely dislike the Earps.
Hurst went to nearby Charleston, but the Cowboys showed up two days later without the mules, laughing at Hurst and the Earps.
The fallout over the Cowboys ' attempt to implicate Holliday and the Earps in the robbery, along with Behan's involvement in King's escape, was the beginning of increasingly bad feelings between the Earp and Cowboy factions.
Ike and other Cowboys believed the new arrest was further evidence that the Earps were illegally persecuting the Cowboys.
The position of the Cowboys may have been viewed as a threat to the Earps and Holliday, especially in light of the Clanton's repeated threats.
The Cowboys testified that he was unarmed and claimed that the Earps murdered a defenseless man.
'" In his testimony, Behan repeatedly insisted he told the Earps that he only intended to disarm the Cowboys, not that he had actually done so.
Behan said he had been trying to persuade the Cowboys to give up their weapons and attempted to stop the Earps from confronting them.
Behan testified that from the time the Earps passed him by to confront the Cowboys, he had watched them closely.
On November 22, he testified that he had arrived in Tombstone only the day before and had no knowledge of any of the events or any of the Cowboys or the Earps prior to the day of the gunfight.
Supporters of the Cowboys in Tombstone looked upon the Earps as murderers.
The incident has become a fixture in American history due to the personal nature of the feud between the Earps and the McLawry and Clanton brothers and the symbolism of the fight between lawmen and the outlaw Cowboys.
He hired Burt Alford, who as a 15 year old boy had witnessed the shootout between the Earps and Cowboys.
It depicts the Cowboys ' version of events in which the Earps shot the Cowboys as they attempted to surrender.
Corral, during which the Earps and Holliday killed three of the Cowboys.
On October 26, 1881, Virgil learned that several Cowboys who had been threatening the Earps for several months were in town and armed in violation of the ordinance.
The Cowboys claimed the Earps had killed the outlaws as they attempted to surrender.
Earps and .
Ike Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday but they were eventually exonerated by a local judge after a 30-day preliminary hearing and then again by a local grand jury.
The Earps arrived on December 1, 1879, when the small town was mostly composed of tents as living quarters, a few saloons and other buildings, and the mines.
Though not universally liked by the townspeople, the Earps tended to protect the interests of the town's business owners and residents, although Virgil's brother Wyatt helped keep a Cowboy from being lynched after he accidentally killed Tombstone Marshal Fred White.
The Earps then invested in several mining claims and water rights.
The Earps were Republicans and Northerners.
The Earps were in conflict with Frank and Tom McLaury and Billy and Ike Clanton, Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and others.
Ike was prone to drinking heavily and threatened the Earps numerous times.
When the Earps ' efforts to invest in various businesses were fruitless, Wyatt became a stagecoach shotgun messenger for Wells Fargo, guarding shipments of silver bullion, until he became Pima County Deputy Sheriff in July 1880 and Tombstone's town marshal.
Their work as lawmen was not welcomed by the outlaw Cowboy elements who viewed the Earps as badge-toting tyrants who ruthlessly enforced the business interests of the town.
In late September, 1880, he followed the Earps to Tombstone.
As officers of the law, the Earps were known to bend the law in their favor when it affected their gambling and saloon interests, which earned them further enmity with the Cowboy faction.
The Earps knew that the McLaurys and Clantons were reputed to be mixed up in the robbery and murder in Skeleton Canyon.
" This incident was the first run-in between the Clantons and McLaurys and the Earps.
The Earps and the townspeople were furious at King's easy escape.
Behan submitted a bill for $ 796. 84 to the county for posse expenses, but he refused to reimburse the Earps for any of their costs.
They were finally reimbursed by Wells, Fargo & Co. later on, but the incident caused further friction between county and federal law enforcement, and between Behan and the Earps.
Tensions between the Earps and the McLaurys further increased when another passenger stage on the ' Sandy Bob Line ' in the Tombstone area, bound for Bisbee, was held up on September 8, 1881.
The Earps checked a shoe repair shop in Bisbee known to provide widened boot heels and were able to link the boot print to Stilwell.
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