“When I’m walking on Allen, just about everybody who comes up to me wants to know where the OK Corral is,” Pakinkis said. Gunslingers also roam dusty Allen Street, not to prove they’re the fastest guns in the West, but to steer tourists toward other commercial shootouts in the Town Too Tough to Die. Four times, just as it does daily (except Thanksgiving and Christmas) at the OK Corral. The shootout may have occurred 136 years ago, but it’s as if it happened yesterday. The 1881 showdown in Tombstone, Arizona, not only made legends of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, but set the stage for a strong tourism industry.Įven now, more than 130 years later, every shot fired and ounce of blood shed at the OK Corral reverberates as people venture to Arizona to glimpse the West as it once was - or at least a touristy version of it. More: Hotels, restaurants and bars where you can still find the Old West in Arizona Such was the power of the Gunfight at the OK Corral to shape the image of the Old West. While these images are universal, delivered by a century of books and movies, they can be traced back to a 30-second event that exploded in a nondescript vacant lot in a frontier town that otherwise might have dried up and blown away. The sidewalks quickly empty and store owners peek nervously from behind curtains.
Planks creak as townsfolk stroll along sidewalks, passing a blacksmith or general store or hardware mercantile.Ī cloud of dust rises at one end of the street, trailing a pack of armed men on horseback. Corral ShootoutĪ stagecoach rattles down a dusty avenue lined with wood-framed buildings.
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