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| Earp Brothers |
Today was a visit to the OK Corral. This included a reenactment with the Earp brothers. The battle starts in the street then moves into the theater area. The fight in the street is both to entertain tourists and to pull them into paying for a ticket to see the whole fight inside. Tombstone is not a place to visit if you aren’t ready to pay for the entertainment.
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| Street Fight at Tombstone |
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| Fight at OK Corral |
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| Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury , and Frank McLaury |
Also in the OK Corral area is a small town to display and explain town life. It included different surreys and buggies. By the way, the signs there gave a story of the derivation of the term buggy. The buggy was a smaller and faster vehicle at that time. It was so fast that dead bugs built up on the front. Probably not true, but funny.
One part that was fascinating was a discussion of ‘soiled doves’, their name for prostitutes. There were pictures of some of the ladies and a discussion of the different levels of prostitute depending on how many times sheets were changed every night, how much they were paid, and how many men they entertained every night (up to 80!!!).
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