Corral - Gunfight At The O.k.

was assassinated while playing billiards in March 1882 .

The gunfight was relatively obscure until the 1931 publication of largely fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal , which transformed Earp into a folk hero . Today, the event stands as an archetype of frontier justice and has been immortalized in films like Tombstone (1993) and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) . The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: Shootout & Aftermath Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

The conflict pitted representatives of "law and order" against a loosely organized group of outlaws known as the . was assassinated while playing billiards in March 1882