. I told him I would keep them in the stable after this and give him no chance to steal them.. Though Ike Clanton's hat was found at the scene where the ambushers waited, a number of associates stood up for him, saying that he had been in Contention that night, and the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. The Earps and the Clantons had political, personal, and legal differences and the animosity between them grew throughout 1881. : Clanton testified later that he saw Virgil take his six-shooter out of his lap and stick it in his pants when the game ended. Billy and Frank stopped first at the Grand Hotel on Allen Street, and were greeted by Doc Holliday. Curly Bill : Tom McLaury was also carried inside, and died silently near Billy. Release Dates Age quod agis. : [27], In late June 1996 a Clanton family descendant, Terry "Ike" Clanton, along with former Citadel professor and grave expert James A. Browning, searched the area near Eagle Creek in what is now Greenlee County, Arizona, where Ike was reportedly buried. On October 25, he and Doc Holliday got into a heated, drunken argument in the Alhambra saloon. Yeah, you look it. Tombstone City Marshal Virgil Earp intervened and threatened to arrest both Holliday and Clanton if they did not stop arguing, and Holliday went home. [citation needed] Stephen Lang played Clanton in the movie Tombstone (1993), which draws heavily on the Billy Breakenridge book Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite. Joseph Isaac Clanton (1847 June 1, 1887) was a member of a loose association of outlaws known as The Cowboys who clashed with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp as well as Doc Holliday. Frank Stillwell This question is actually fundamental to the Earp myth. That's Virgil there with the women. Frank McLaury didnt make it that far, having died in the street after multiple shots from Wyatt, Morgan and Doc. The movie title series list will include "Mountie" movies . Curly Bill Brocious Robert John Burke Frank McLaury Dana Delany Josephine Marcus Sam Elliott Virgil Earp Stephen Lang Ike Clanton Terry O'Quinn Mayor John Clum . And when it mattered, Ike had deserted the four feet he requested. Related read: The Invisibly Adventurous Life of Josephine Marcus Earp. However the night played out, Ikes threats stand out as a turning point. Both Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton were each armed with a revolver and a rifle, as was the custom for riders in the country outside Tombstone. Houses, shanties and jacals are going up rapidly, and several families are now on the ground, the Weekly Republican reported. Should I hate him? He didnt stop at legal activities, however; just about every source agrees that he and his sons rustled and bought rustled stock, participating in the free and easy raiding conducted both by Arizona bands and by Mexican bands criss-crossing the Mexican border, wrote Paula Marks in And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Earp later said that on June 2, 1881 he offered the Wells, Fargo & Co. reward money and more to Clanton if he would provide information leading to the capture or death of the stage robbers. His big mouth and. [21]:89 From Spangenberg's, the Cowboys moved to the O.K. Both Brighton and Miller ordered him to halt but instead of doing so, when about twenty yards distant where the trail took a turn to the left, he threw his rifle over his left arm attempting to fire; at this instance Detective Brighton fired, the ball entering under the left arm and passing directly through the heart and out under the right arm. Tombstone (1993) - Stephen Lang as Ike Clanton - IMDb Tombstone (1993) Stephen Lang: Ike Clanton Showing all 9 items Jump to: Photos (3) Quotes (6) Photos Quotes Curly Bill : [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? Curly Bill Wyatt Earp Have you ever heard the concept of SMART goals? He is of Hungarian Jewish-German Jewish (father) and Irish-German Catholic (mother) descent. Michael Witney played Clanton in Doc (1971). : ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]. [27], On December 25, 1886Christmas DayEvans, wanting to see if a bullet would go through a Mormon, shot and killed Jim Hale in cold blood. Then, with James Earp and his wife Bessie, the group headed to Tombstone in December of that year. [5]:193 However, the Clantons never registered a brand in either Cochise County or Pima County which was required to legally raise cattle. 2:30 p.m. October 26, 1881 Doc Holliday That all sounded good on paper, and Ike Clanton agreed to turn on his fellow cowboys, but the plan soon fell apart when it was discovered that Leonard and Head had already been killed by rustlers in the Animas Valley of New Mexico. Corral was the main event, this was the foreplay. The story of Wyatt Earp has been told many times over the years, from history books teaching us about the O.K. Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Holliday but after a 30-day preliminary hearing, Justice Wells Spicer ruled that the lawmen had acted within their lawful duty. Clanton proved a better witness for the defense than the prosecution. [2], In the summer of 1881, Clanton got into an argument with gambler "Denny" McCann. : Can you sense a theme yet? I went down to Wyatt Earp's house and told him that Ike Clanton had threatened that when him and his brothers and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street that the ball would open. Most of em, especially those from Texas, didnt care for Mexicans the MexicanAmerican War was still pretty close in their rearview and it was easy to adopt a dont ask, dont tell kinda policy that made for cheaper beef in town. It also angered Earp. [citation needed]. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of me. [37] Clanton was played by William Tannen in the episode "After the OK Corral" of the syndicated western anthology series, Death Valley Days. : They also hired Jonas "Jake" V. Brighton as a secret service officer. The story of the Earps and the cowboys of Cochise County may be a gray area of Arizonas past, but Ike Clantons actions clearly paint a less-than-courageous picture before, during and after the infamous gunfight at the O.K. As Wyatt recounted in the San Francisco Examiner in 1896: The moment the first shots were fired and Philpott fell, the horses plunged ahead so viciously that nothing could have stopped them. [36] He was later replaced in the role by Rayford Barnes. Doc Holliday, the cold-blooded sharp-shooter, reunites with his old friend, Marshall Wyatt Earp, to take down the Clanton gang in the dusty town of Tombstone, in Arizona. Tombstone - Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer Poster (24 x 36") 19.99 from Amazon.co.uk. It wouldnt look good to voters if he was known to collude with cowboys, much the same way current sheriff Johnny Behan had. : They then walked a block north to an empty lot next to C. S. Fly's boarding house where Doc Holliday lived. : Not in any language. "Tombstone, Arizona - Historical Accounts", "Testimony of Ike Clanton in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of E. F. Boyle in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of Martha King in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of Wyatt S. Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Testimony of Virgil Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp Case", "WGBH American Experience: Wyatt Earp, Complete Program Transcript", "Outlaw Newman Haynes Clanton or Old Man Clanton", "Decision of Judge Wells Spicer after the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case", "Gunfight at the O.K. This account of the court case that followed the gunfight at the OK Corral "will interest Wild West buffs as well as readers interested in legal history" ( Publishers Weekly ). Despite Hollywood. After the meal, Ike, Renfro, and Ellinger went into a cabin on the Clanton ranch when for unknown reasons Renfro shot and killed Ellinger. I'm in my prime. Marshal Wyatt Earp led a federal posse that escorted Virgil Earp to the railroad, bound for his parents home in Colton, California. He is married to Kristina Watson, a costume designer and teacher, with whom he has four children. Clanton testified that Earp had threatened to kill his confederates because he feared they would reveal his part in the robbery. : Having successfully built a career as a lawman in the Old West, Wyatt Earp arrives in the town of Tombstone to enjoy a much-deserved retirement with his two brothers, Virgil . Doc Holliday After the confrontation with Clanton, Wyatt Earp took Holliday back to his boarding house at Camillus Sidney "Buck" Fly's Lodging House to sleep off his drinking, then went home and to bed. What's wrong with him? If the gunfight at the O.K. In this 1993 film, he's the main Tombstone character. : Boyle encouraged him to get some sleep, but Clanton insisted he would not go to bed. Sheriff Johnny Behan later testified that the incident had angered Ike Clanton. Whats not up for debate, however, is the fact that Ike Clanton, who had been buffaloed and disarmed hours earlier, did not have a weapon. Billy Clanton had been shot several times, and was carried into a nearby home, where he died soon after. Some thirty seconds after the fight started, it was over. But business took precedence, and some of the riffraff actually contributed to commerce in their own unruly way.. What do you think, darling? The story's shown through his eyes. Ike approached him [Wyatt] in the street and asked to talk. Which is where Ike and his crew got into trouble with the Earps and Doc Holliday or the other way around, depending on who you asked. Wyatt claimed that Ike was present when Stilwell was killed at the Tucson train station, but that he ran to escape when he saw the Vendetta posse. Wyatt spoke of his brothers Virgil and Morgan as the "marshals" while he acted as "deputy.". Within days, Wyatt would kill Frank Stilwell and Curly Bill, though Ike escaped his vengeful grasp. When it was launched in 1993, Lang was still virtually unknown in Hollywood, and thus, played a small role in the film in the character of Ike Clanton. After the Gunfight at the OK Corral, the Clantons bought land near a ranch owned by their sister Mary. According to Wyatt's testimony later, 18-year-old Billy Clanton asked him insolently if he had any more horses to "lose," but he gave the horse up without first being shown the ownership papers, demonstrating to Wyatt that Billy Clanton knew to whom the horse belonged. He's mine, understand? When the dust settled on the most infamous gunfight in the West, three men lay dying in the streets of Tombstone, including 19-year-old Billy Clanton. He was arrested and charged with murder. Corral (1957). Corral during a trial scene in Muskogee Little Theatre's production . Official Sites Corral, but Virgil Earp, In the last half of the 1800s, the bustling port town of San Francisco, which grew out of, If you are a fan of the Paramount+ series Yellowstone (and who isnt? By September 1874, Old Man Clanton had a nice thing going on the Gila. Ike paid a fine of $27.50 and was released. Phin was caught and jailed in April 1887, and in May, Ike arrived at a cabin on Eagle Creek, south of Springerville, only to run into J.V. Doc Holliday Witnesses later testified that Ike Clanton had spent all day, even after his arrest and disarming, threatening to gun down the Earps. Corral dustup on October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Clanton, about age 34, and his 19-year-old brother, Billy, were among the five cowboys confronted by the Earp brothers and a dentist that fateful day. Unsurprisingly, the poll results for the precinct were largely in favor of Shibell, who was aligned with ranchers of the area. A local journalist provided the forty-year-old Cowboys most fitting epitaph: Thus ended the wild career of poor, deluded, misguided Ike Clanton,' John Boessenecker wrote in Ride the Devils Herd. Ike sprinted to safety through Flys boarding house, leaving his younger brother and two friends to be shot to pieces, wrote Wm. Not after what you done. Clanton repeatedly boasted in public, drank heavily, and had a quick temper. In the film, Clanton is portrayed as being second-in-command of the Clanton Gang. Virgil Earp told Clanton he would leave Clanton's confiscated rifle and revolver at the Grand Hotel which was favored by Cowboys when in town. : Heres how it happened. The Clantons repeatedly threatened the Earps because they interfered with the Cowboys' illegal activities. Clanton turned his horse to run and drew his rifle from his scabbard. Wyatt Earp concluded that he could not rely on civil justice and decided to take matters into his own hands. Credat Judaeus apella, non ego. He further claimed that Holliday had told him that Holliday had "piped off" money from the stage before it left (although no money was missing, and the stage had not been successfully robbed). Depending on the account, Ike either turned to flee, reached for his rifle, or both, but in any case, Brighton shot him when he refused to surrender. Yeah, well I hope you die. [18] The three main Tombstone corrals were all west of 4th street, a block or two from where Wyatt saw the Cowboys buying cartridges. Role: Ike Clanton, second in command of the Cowboys Also known for: Also worked with Elliott in "Gettysburg" (1993) and appeared in "Gods and Generals" (2003) and "Avatar" (2009). Ike Clanton : Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here. : Clanton also said Holliday had confessed to him about killing the stage driver. According to The Last Gunfight, over the course of his drunken bender, Ike made these alleged threats to the Earps and Doc Holliday: The bar scene in Tombstone was no stranger to Ikes drunken threats, but on the morning of October 26, he was spotted armed, drunk and rambling by Ned Boyle, a barkeep at the Oriental. Wyatt, please, I Wyatt Earp : Savvy? [flips a card] Wyatt Earp : Winner to the King, five hundred dollars. It also didnt take long for Old Man Clanton to grasp the fruitful economics of borderland cattle rustling. Johnny Ringo Behan stated he immediately went to locate the Cowboys. All right then, I guess you can just get back on your horse and ride back down there to your new friends. director of photography (as Charles B. Lang Jr.) Film Editing by Warren Low . The Clantons and their ranch hands and associates were known as the "Cowboys", and they had a reputation for reckless behavior. Old Man Clanton was most definitely "The founder of the feast" (great line) The life and times of. And those are the threats Ike allegedly made the night of the 25th, and into the next morning. They were accused of cattle rustling from across the U.S.Mexican border, as well as other acts of banditry and murder. They were a rip-roarin, fun-lovin bunch of boys when they had money to spend, and most of the saloonkeepers wanted the cowboys to spend it at their bars, even if they paid with Mexican pesos and dirty money, wrote Casey Tefertiller in Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend. When Brighton and Miller walked up to where Ike lay they found he was dead. After three days, he spent the night of May 31, 1887 at Jim "Peg Leg" Wilson's Ranch on Eagle Creek, south of Springerville. The family moved to Tombstone, Arizona in 1877. Clanton also denied ever threatening the Earps. Corral And How It Changed the American West, Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell, Ride the Devils Herd: Wyatt Earps Epic Battle Against the Wests Biggest Outlaw Gang, And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. If fight was his racket, its fitting that more than 100 years later, a fight however small or one-sided still endures to determine Ike Clantons rightful reputation in American West history. But some things dont change, and in the following years the Clantons faced multiple charges, from stealing cattle to outright robbery. What is that now? After he was passed over by Johnny Behan for the position of undersheriff, Earp thought he might beat him in the next Cochise County election. . Tombstone (GC2J5F3) was created by manymutts on 11/12/2010. Mr. Brighton got up from the table, walked to the door, and was familiarly saluted by him. I'm retired. In March 1882, Morgan was shot and killed in Campbell & Hatch Saloon and Billiard Parlor, and the Earp Vendetta Ride was officially on. Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Old Man Clanton and five other men were killed in the ambush. Doc Holliday By law, both Frank and Billy should have left their firearms at the Grand Hotel. Newman Haynes Clanton, also known as "Old Man Clanton", Ike's father, ran a ranch near the Mexican border that served as a waystation for much of the smuggling carried out by the outlaws. More at IMDbPro Contact info Wyatt Earp The group soon congregated near the O.K. Ike was unarmed as he should have been, due to Tombstones in-town firearm policy so he technically wasnt doing anything illegal. Company Credits [1] [30] Since their discovery, Terry has unsuccessfully tried to interest Tombstone city officials in exhuming the remains and re-interring them in Tombstone's famous Boot Hill graveyard.[30]. Curly Bill By April 1882, Wyatts vendetta ride had reached its end, and the Earps split up into the next chapters of their lives, with Wyatt and his crew traveling up to Colorado. He also tried to buy a gun in Spangenbergs before the fight, though the shopkeep read the room wisely and refused to sell Ike a weapon. A posse including Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan, Johnny Behan, Bob Paul, Bat Masterson and Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams tracked the outlaws trail toward a small ranch outside Benson, where they found Luther King, who admitted that he, Jim Crane, Harry Head and Billy Leonard were responsible for the hold-up. Spicer ordered the release of the defendants, and in December, a grand jury decided not to pursue murder indictments against them. Take a good look at him, Ike 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! King would later escape from Tombstones jail, and despite unfounded rumors that the Earps and Doc Holliday were also involved in the holdup, Wells Fargo issued $1,200 rewards each for Crane, Head and Leonard. For Ike Clanton, the rest of 1881 only got worse. Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, a friend to the Cowboys,[19] later testified that he first learned of the trouble while he was getting a shave at the barbershop after 1:30 pm, which is when he had risen after the late-night game. So run, you cur RUN! Ike Clanton Related read: 29 Most Iconic Quotes from Tombstone. Shortly after 8:00 am barkeeper E. F. Boyle spoke to Clanton, who had been drinking all night, in front of the telegraph office. Newman was released for being old and J-Dubs time with the Rebs was marred by charges of desertion, wrote Shillingberg in Tombstone, A.T. After the war, the Clanton clan headed west, passing through southeastern Arizona on their way to California, where theyd run into their first of several legal and ethical clashes in the West. Product Information. It's located in British Columbia, Canada.This cache is one in the series of "movie title" caches. Corral gunfight, so the need for weapons outside of town was well established and accepted.[15]. [4], At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed. Now heres where it gets tricky. Ned was alarmed to see that Ike was not only drunk, but also armed with a pistol in sight, which probably meant that the gun was jammed into the waistband of Ikes pants, wrote Guinn in The Last Gunfight. [33][34] In Sturges' sequel, Hour of the Gun (1967), he is portrayed by Robert Ryan as a sophisticated man. Eventually, the brothers hit the streets of Tombstone, where they found and buffaloed a drunk and armed Ike Clanton, dragging him to court to pay a fine for carrying a firearm in town. Ike Clanton In the gunfight, Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp joined Doc Holliday to . : [4] Not having rented a room, McLaury and Clanton had no place to go. Johns. He took part in the Mason County War in Texas during which he committed his first murder. : director of photography Film Editing by Casting By Lora Kennedy Production Design by He took Holliday's walking-stick in return. Pima County was heavily Democratic, but many of the new miners and merchants in Tombstone voted Republican. Next time it wont be your horse well get, Billy Clanton called after Wyatt in highly colored allusion; itll be you.'. I'm sure of it, I hate him. : Frank Stillwell It's a Micro size geocache, with difficulty of 1.5, terrain of 1.5. Throughout November, the hearing included witnesses and testimony from both sides. : After disarming Billy Clanton, Wyatt says hell throw his guns on the other side of the bridge, prompting a threat that wouldnt seem out of place from the Clantons. [13] Clanton was fined $25 plus court costs and after paying the fine left unarmed. [31] Clanton was portrayed by Grant Withers in the John Ford classic My Darling Clementine (1946). [pats his gun] Wyatt Earp may be lionized for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. He's drunk. When the Earp wagons rolled into Tombstone in December 1879, Wyatt's plan was to start a stage line in the area, and Virgil was ready to pursue his duties as a deputy U.S. marshal. Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky. Brighton was himself a known criminal and hardly a legit range detective. Tombstone (1993) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Writing Credits ( WGA) Kevin Jarre . So he threw himself at Wyatts mercy, affirming that fight was actually not his racket. On October 25, 1881, while Clanton was in Tombstone, drunk and very loud, Holliday accused him of lying about the Benson stagecoach robbery. Related read: 9 Tall but True Tales About Luke Short, Western Gunfighter. In fact, throughout his life, Ike Clanton routinely came around with that BS and on more than one occasion got called out for it. They had heard from their neighbor, Ed Frink, that Clanton had been stirring up trouble in town overnight, and they had ridden into town on horseback to back up their brothers. By 1878 Ike was running a small "lunch counter" at the Tombstone Mill site (now Millville on the San Pedro Rivernot in modern Tombstone). By 1885, each had a 160-acre ranch 10 miles east of Springerville near the New Mexico border. Clanton was played by Victor Jory in Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942). In August, Old Man Clanton and four other men including Jim Crane, the only living Benson stagecoach suspect were killed by Mexican smugglers in the Guadalupe Canyon Massacre. Six years later Clanton was killed attempting to flee when he was shot by a lawman seeking to arrest him for cattle-rustling. Tombstone (1993) - Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo - IMDb All Tombstone (1993) Michael Biehn: Johnny Ringo Showing all 19 items Jump to: Photos (8) Quotes (11) Photos Quotes Curly Bill : [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Wyatt Earp, huh? Ike Clantons testimony and the diverging stories he included eventually swung the verdict toward the Earp side, and on November 30, Spicer reported that he cannot resist the conclusion that the defendants were fully justified in committing these homicides, according to The Last Gunfight.
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