h for his seemingly odd friendship with the gambler Doc Holliday as for being a hero. Holliday was a consumptive who had come to Arizona for his health, as so many would after him, but he was known as a gunfighter and helped the Earps on numerous occasions. In the film, he is killed in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is historically inaccurate but effective dramatically in the film.
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona was an actual event that has been studied and written about by Western historians since the day it happened. In the film, it serves as the conclusion to which the story is tending from the first. Wyatt is a reluctant marshal for the town at first, and it is evident from his first clash with the Clantons that the story will end in the usual way, with a shootout. Ford, however, is as interested in developing a sense of community in Tombstone as in dealing with the gunfight itself. Earp is shown as a man who has bee
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