Arizona 's "wild west '' reputation was well deserved. Tombstone was a notorious mining town that flourished longer than most, from 1877 to 1929. Silver was discovered in 1877, and by 1881 the town had a population of over 10,000. Western story tellers and Hollywood film makers made as much money in Tombstone as anyone, thanks to the arrival of Wyatt Earp and his brothers in 1879. They bought shares in the Vizina mine, water rights, and gambling concessions, but Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt were soon appointed as federal and local marshals. They killed three outlaws 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.
what is the name of the most famous gunfight in arizonas history
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Gunfight at the O.K. Corral