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Talk:Wyatt Earp
In the section on the Stevens double barrel shotgun, it incorrectly states that Holliday killed Curly Bill Brocius at the OK Corral ambush with one. That is incorrect, Curly Bill was not at the OK Corral fight. Holliday murdered an unarmed Tom McClaury with the 10 gauge; McClaury was wearing no sidearm and when the Earps and Holliday appeared, armed, at the vacant lot by the corral where the gunfight actually occured, he knew they came for murder and reached across the saddle on a horse he was holding for a rifle in a scabbard on the other side of the horse. That's why Holliday's shotgun blast caught him in the side, under the arm, killing him instantly. Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne, or at least Ike, were also unarmed and after seeing Tom McClaury murdered by Holliday they fled the scene. Frank McClaury and Billy Clanton stood and fought it out, the two of them hitting (and unfortunately only wounding) two of the Earps and Holliday. Curly Bill was killed with a shotgun later, out of town, in battle near a river. The Earps and Holliday were the real criminal element in Tombstone, far more than the Clantons/McClaurys. Dennis Quaid's performance as Holliday, losing a lot of weight to look gaunt and sickly as someone suffering from TB would, should have won an Oscar. He also showed just what an awful actor Kevin Costner really is, too.