"The Walk" to the Street Fight in Tombstone

History comes alive as you learn what lead up to the shootout & walk the same route as the Earps & "Doc" Holliday on that faithful day in 1881.
TRT: 11:37
Hosted by The Reverend Dr. Jay Hitchins,
Shot & Edited by Darrin Forsythe
Guitar Music by Ron Everett

[@starwars1026]

Went on the walking tour with Dr. Jay on a recent holiday with my sons. Really enjoyed it.

[@ReservoirPunk]

Did he dunk on your head at the end?

[@maddygvanlifer435]

This tour is on my bucket list and this tour guide is the best I've seen on KZbin. He even dressed the part. Love it.

[@befhip]

Great insights pertaining to the gunfight! My next trip to Tombstone will be centered around Dr. Jay's walking tour!

[@phillipg.stricklin3206]

Very informative and entertaining, Reverend Dr. Jay.

[@scenicdriveways6708]

My wife and I are finally going to get to see Tombstone this winter , I'm pretty excited about it. I grew up watching Westerns with my grandpa and love western history.

[@Michael_Veritas]

Thank you for interesting tour Dr. Jay.

[@nrgao]

Been on a Wyatt Earp Nostalgia kick today. People told my dad he looked like Wyatt Earp his entire life, which was hilarious because my dad was nicknamed “Lil Rick”, standing at 5’7. What people really meant is he looked almost exactly like Kurt Russel as Wyatt Earp, down to the sharp piercing eyes, jaw line and exact mustache. We spent more days than seems healthy quoting Tombstone to each other. He passed away February 3, 2021 after a long bout with COPD. Miss ya dad!

[@bernie6956]

Your videography and editing skills were very present in this beautiful, educational video. Thank you so much.

[@subhashnamey5562]

I'm so thrilled to watch your video. Because Tombstone Town has mesmerized me and the story of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and Clanton , I want to come there to Arizona.

[@JR-zv6qm]

What a great video. Informative as well. Thanks for the upload.

[@bobpayseno7481]

What great insight...thank you so much!👍😊

[@gindywilliams1045]

Really good explanation of the story this man is a great story teller I enjoyed this small clip thank you

[@michaelshanahan4042]

This guy tells a good story i think he's tours must be very popular

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

He didn't mention the fact that this was way before smokeless gun powder, and the ammunition in those days created a lot of smoke. And with all of those guns blazing, over 30 combind rounds fired, it would have been very difficult to see anything in front of you within seconds of the start of the fight.

[@edwinthompson6510]

Love these guide tours i been on a few around Tombstone {{ and In London UK Jack the Ripper tour... that was brilliant because it was conducted at night time eerie to say the lest..... al happened in 1888 only 7 years after Ok Corral.....Ed

[@faronanderson2536]

That's history.Pretty cool man,pretty darn cool 😎 👌

[@sleaponit21]

the closest you get to the truth possible, well done dr Jay sir.

[@sgtjarhead99]

LOL. This guy is great. Would love to take this tour.

[@joemanpjg]

great video and tour narrator

[@darrinforsythe5750]

Thank you!

[@jerrycooper6033]

Did Dr. Jay's historical walk today, fun and interesting! I would do it again if the opportunity arose!

[@ernestkaiser6893]

Good history, thanks for keeping it alive.

[@johnraines4825]

I walked it back in the 70s.

[@groundbreakerexplore]

Thanks for the sharing! keep it up with your content! stay connected! take care there!

[@pranksterguy1]

This guy knows what he is talking about!

[@debbiec4914]

Excellent!!!!

[@michaelwatson1228]

Very interesting and informative

[@josephsturgis3898]

Amazing in all that melee' that Wyatt Earp survived w/o a scratch!~!

[@MultiRabe]

Yes, I knew that the actual gunfight was in an open area behind the OK Corral! Great history

[@frickpoo6644]

awesome rendition

[@claud1961]

I wish this fellow was there when I was, 1995. We took a buggy ride because we had small children. One thing he didn't do was take them behind that wall to see the hideous fiberglass replicas of the Earp faction. It is supposed to depict where the fight started, and my memory is not good enough to remember how accurate it was. I do recall far too much space. We entered from Allen st and went through the O.K. Corral to get to the Fly's replica and the Land Grant Office, as I recall. Still good to go there, I recommend it to all western history buffs.

[@robertabrams8562]

I think Addie Borland stated in her testimony that, she saw all the men gather in the alleyway, but when the shooting started, she ran to the rear of her home to avoid being shot by a stray bullet! Her home was relocated from Fremont St, to 3rd St…and is now the Four Dueces Saloon (no food)

[@DonFrankel]

Great video. Doc Holiday went to an actual dental college so I assume he knew about cleaning wounds. Maybe that's why they survived their wounds. Wyatt untouched by a bullet and the only one still standing.

[@ziggy2shus624]

Sidewinder narrator Hitchins missed the most important factor that led to the "Gunfight near the the OK Corral". In 1881, the same year as the gunfight, a monumental shift in the universe occurred. The Bird Cage Saloon, at 0:08 in the video, soon to be international star "Little Egypt" started dancing at the Bird Cage when she was about 12 years old. A full size painting of Little Egypt is still in the Bird Cage, bullet holes and all. Little Egypt introduced Middle Eastern dancing, also known as belly dancing, with the technical scientific name of "Hoochie Coochie" dancing. Did Little Egypt's provocative dancing so disrupt the world as it led to the gunfight? Little Egypt went on to be a sensation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and then was a star in Europe. See KZbin for the 1950s song "Little Egypt" by the Coasters

[@Erik_J_Poleate]

Love this dude, his information is spot on except for one thing. There were 10 people, the three Earps, Doc Holiday, both Clantons, both Mcclaurys, Billy Clayborne, and Wes Fuller. Fuller and Claybourne booked it just before the fight began, followed closely by Ike Clanton. R.I.P. - Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank Mcclaury. Holliday was grazed by a bullet on his right side, Morgan Earp was hit through the right shoulder, Virgil Earp was hit in I believe his left calf through testimony documents, and Wyatt was untouched.

[@BigCheech-wy9os]

Great video. What is this song.

[@darrinforsythe5750]

"Walking With a Guitar" An original by Ron Everett.

[@regaeontop6021]

I think I'll take his tour when I go

[@billlozier5551]

From this video Tombstone looks, pardon the pun, dead. Hardly looks like its changed much. How many tourists does Dr.Jay see each day? Three or four? Personally I love it. Cool tour. I'd love to see this in person.

[@AdaM48state]

Thanks that was cool

[@imthefrogman1]

good video Doc

[@darrinforsythe5750]

Thank you!

[@richardprovost8204]

Thank you , you told me alot of stuff I don't know....

[@teller121]

lot of stuff was inaccurate.

[@RoguePhysicist]

The Earps: Northerners. James, Virgil, and their father fought in the Union army. Holliday: Born and raised in Georgia. His father fought in the Confederate army. The Clantons: From Tennessee to Missouri to Texas. Newman and his oldest son fought for the Confederates. The McLaurys: From New York to Iowa. Oldest brother fought for the Union. Claiborne: Born 1860, place unknown. Ringo: From Indiana to Missouri to Wyoming to California. Brocious: Possibly Indiana to Missouri to Texas. Stillwell: From Iowa to Kansas. His father fought for the Union. Behan: Missouri. Fought on the Union side. Maybe the "North vs. South" issue wasn't very divisive in the matter of the Earps' clash with the Cowboys. It seems most of the famous Cowboys were also northerners.

[@brettkliethermes8722]

very informative.....

[@betonthis1]

Went there the day before yesterday. It's crazy that the actual street where the fight occurred is the main road into the town. I would think they would route traffic down another road and protect that road like the one to the west of it.

[@stephenjones9604]

Little question where was Curly Bill & Johnny Ringo when this was going on.

[@danfrakes5871]

Hiding from Wyatt. They weren't stupid.

[@disgruntledpedant2755]

Within 3 to 5 shots the visibility had to be less than 70%

[@KevinMamea-i9c]

Why are those new cars parked there? Cariages only

[@jmctigret]

I learn something new today

[@teller121]

such as?

[@alissarobertson8840]

A police officer from a neighboring police department was in a shooting across the hood of a car. He was on one the bad guy on the other. 12 shots were fire with only 1 hit. Larry hit the bad guy once in the chest killing him. A total of 11 misses at 6 feet or so it happens under pressure.

[@Idahoguy10157]

Great tour! However FDR was married in in 1905, not 1940.

[@GeoffreyJohns]

One small incident, so many different views, This one seems as good as any

[@teller121]

not sure about the politics there being that lopsided against Earps. Clum, a New Yorker, was the Mayor; biggest paper in town, "Epitath," was anti-"Cowboy" and, after OK Corral, pro-Earp; only Justice of the Peace, Wells Spicer, who heard the post-OK Corral evidence against Earps and Holliday, was a New Yorker. AZ wasn't Texas. I'd guess 60-40 pro-Cowboy, at best. Guns unreliable? NO idea where he got that. Colt and Remington were main two revolvers and were of impeccable reputation for reliability and lethality close. Combatants young? So what!? Not counting coward Ike, oldest guy there was Virgil at 35, Wyatt at 33, Morgan 29, Doc 32, McLaureys somewhere in their early to late 20s. Woman across street changing her story? Who knows. Unless she was looking at the very moment first shots were fired, she wouldn't have seen the legally critical portion anyway. Pretty weak narration imo. And lose the silly pony tail.

[@colinp2238]

@@teller121 Guns back there weren't machine made and the bore was rough inside. The bullet travelling along the barrel would be bouncing from side to side and up and down so the last part that it hit in the barrel would determine the trajectory, that was fairly random. The reason you see that people get away from any fight situation is more fear of being hit accidentally. The picture you have of John Wayne firing Colts accurately over a half mile is pure Hollywood bs.

[@shooterqqqq]

@@colinp2238 The guns of the Old West were all machine made. There was no such thing as a bullet bouncing around in the barrel.

[@colinp2238]

@@shooterqqqq Maybe I was thinking of muskets.

[@jbbarnhart4934]

It's October 1st 2030 u still around? Ur GREAT

[@rodericcurtis5831]

Thanks again mom

[@outdoorlife5396]

Is there any truth to that Doc Holiday was a bad shot, so they gave him the shotgun

[@shooterqqqq]

He was the only one with a long coat so Virgil lent the Wells Fargo shotgun to him so it would be hidden.

[@candaceshirley8173]

It looks simply delicious

[@scottcozart8950]

Be cool to find some bullets from the fight. With detector.

[@scoggins07]

I don't know if they would exist cause that happened over 130 years ago.

[@danfrakes5871]

About a 100 years to late. Lol

[@johnnyquest3707]

Billy Claiborne was the cowboy who fled the fight but earlier in the film ‘Tombstone” he is called “Barnes”, I believe. Another real guy. And in the movie we all see “Frank McClaury” at the beginning of the gunfight with both a hat on and off. trivial nonsense of a fantastic movie. Here’s more. While so many Uberti guns were used in place of actual Colt single actions, Billy Clinton has a real Colt. But ironic that the guy with a real Colt has a blooper because the grips on it weren’t available in gutta percha material until a year later and in the 1890s for the ones “Billy” had. This crap makes my wife roll her eyes when I point it out.

[@Mike-01234]

They don't have shootouts anymore on the streets have to pay go inside an enclosed area not even good anymore. Most of the town shops are people from the East coast who moved there to retire.

[@robertkeck178]

On top of all the political drama, the participants were probably firing using real gunpowder. After the first 2-3 shots they likely couldn't even see each other.

[@teller121]

black powder a little overrated for total obscuring a few feet in front of you. Most black powder stories seem to flow from the effects of volleys on civil war battlefields from 100s and 1000s of guns and cannon on hot, humid days in MD and VA in 1862-63. First few shots from a few handguns (one shotgun to one flank) no big deal. Just ask the Earps...only the Cowboy faction seem to miss.

[@blbbtactical6969]

Plus no one ever realizes that pistols are not good at hitting there target. The slightest pull or movement sends that bullet flying a different direction. That's why you practice. It's not like in the movies. People hardly ever hit the target with pistols.

[@shooterqqqq]

Not true at all. The pistols of the old west were much more accurate than the average owner.

[@bruceburnett1584]

I live here in Tombstone and when I go to the range I see people hitting targets dead on ALL the time with a wide variety of pistols...

[@georgestokes5116]

glad to hear some one tell the truth about were the gun fight really happen not at the ok corial

[@craigrehfuss4689]

Dr. Jay Hitchins? I know him as Dr. Jay Clark and have always known him as such. What's he hiding?

[@danfrakes5871]

Still gunning for Wyatt after all these years.

[@danfrakes5871]

His real last name. Wtf I don't know. Lol😊

[@josephsturgis3898]

No doubt about it.Had the Earps been alive, today they would've been Trumpers!! YEEHAW!!~

[@danfrakes5871]

Biden was at the shootout. Took off running. Hunter drew a picture of it.

[@fenwaypark1725]

Being a damn Yankee myself,let’s go Brandon 🇺🇸🖖

[@IrminsulMusic]

Is it just me or is this guy a little light in the loafers?

[@danfrakes5871]

Wow must have been the ring.

[@danfrakes5871]

It's just you.😊

[@IrminsulMusic]

@@danfrakes5871 Nah, i think he's light in the loafers

[@robbrown6934]

What kind of car did Wyatt have? Ha ha ha. I'm laughing too at your outfit.

[@danfrakes5871]

A pinto or mustang. Dummy everybody knows that.😊

[@alan30189]

That guy’s good, but saying the Earps looked like Brad Pitt, is a stretch. Even back then, the Democrats were corrupt. Vote Republican!

[@danfrakes5871]

Where do you think mail in ballets were first used.

[@RealDapperDude]

Sorry, DK, but it's "fateful" day, not "faithful" day. I'll stick with Tombstone with Kurt and Val for a re-enactment.

[@marketingpro2856]

Doc Holiday was a another wild west legend

[@dks13827]

Could Addie Bourland see well ?? Hmm ?

[@LesterMoore]

Why is it every time I see a reenactment of the OK Corral gunfight the Earps and Holiday are portrayed by old fat guys? No thirtyish slim men around?🤔

[@danfrakes5871]

140 years of good eating will do that to a man 😊

[@Ralphie5023]

Hell ! If I got the money , I wouldn't give 2 shits about the dame !

[@TherealgoddessK]

the real fight was not at the ok coral, it was a vacant lot next to a boardng house and the highway runs over it now. Its interesting how they have this walk to a fictional sight because the real one is gone. But come on people lets keep history acurate- tell people this is a "substitute" sight for the real one.

[@bruceburnett1584]

Interesting that every point you brought up was addressed in the video itself. Fremont Street was ALWAYS a super wide street. You can easily tell by the distance between Schieffelin Hall and the old city hall both 1880's buildings and quite far apart. The highway in no way shape or form runs over the lot, or the boarding house, the street was as wide then as it is now😉

[@tritchie6272]

The Earps were really just as dirty as the Clantons.

[@salyerbrandon]

The Earps were completely in the right, Han drew first.

[@aprildannettegosa5381]

Billy Clanton fired first the Earps did not

[@americanproud2990]

T Ritchie from eyewitnesses accounts from the trial transcripts which you can find online. A lot of people in Tombstone believe that the earps where in the right in going down there. A lot of witnesses said that the clantons had guns and the earps were coming to disarm them. Also it didn't help that the Clanton's testimony at the trial were fishy and raised questions. While Wyatt seemed genuine. It is known that Ike lied in the trial to try and get revenge on Wyatt. Didn't help him. Now is the question did the Earps went down there looking for a fight or to really disarm them? We may never know because we weren't there and the witnesses has died off. I'm a big Wyatt Earp and Tombstone buff so I have studied the Ok Corral feud.

[@Idahoguy10157]

No one in this story has all clean hands. Certainly not the Earps. However the Clintons and the Cowboys had to be taken down by Martial Law, the U.S. Army, and federal Marshalls

[@debrajoned3798]

No the Earp's were better if you really watch in the past.

[@jbbarnhart4934]

2020

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

I've made that walk. But without all of the talking.

[@danfrakes5871]

Who cares 😂😂😂

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

Obviously YOU, because you've never done it, or ever will. Jerk.

[@brycefore831]

Jesus loves you

[@ioanasinca2510]

Faceți traducerea și în limba română ca să înțelegem și noi despre ce e vorba,, w,

[@danfrakes5871]

See

[@badbudgie1539]

"crappy Guns" oh please...................

[@teller121]

yes, that was a major red flag on this guy. Colt, Remington...crappy? Just because powder wasn't smokeless doesn't mean anything as to immediate accuracy and reliability of the handguns involved. The US Army had purchased the 1873 SAA, .45 Colt, over eight years prior to this incident, with no complaints except from poor Indians. also, the fact that that the participants were young...so what? 18 is pretty young (though he purportedly wounded one of the earps), but the others were known to be pretty reliable guns. But regardless, I doubt they'd be less edgy had they been 45!

[@johnnychaos152]

I'm actually related to Doc Holliday. He was a cousin a few times removed on my father's side. He's documented to have carried a .38 1877 Colt Lightning Double Action. He had it custom made with nickel plating and an ivory bird's head grip. He was also known to have carried an old single shot percussion lock derringer in his vest pocket. I own a replica of his Colt and it's damn near the perfect sidearm. It's small, lightweight, and I've shot it probably 90 times without a single misfire. It was perfect for a guy who was 5'7 and 125lbs that had very little physical strength. Far from a "crappy" gun. Hell that little revolver is more reliable than my Glock.

[@colinp2238]

@@johnnychaos152 It is a modern replica made under different conditions and would perform as a modern side arm not as one of 150 years ago.

[@colinp2238]

@Stop the BS Does military combat and riots count as gunfights? And usually you are sick afterwards, your training should help you overcome the initial fear.

[@colinp2238]

@Stop the BS In riots where stones and Molotovs are coming at you?

[@mistervacation23]

I got new for you

[@jehovahuponyou]

IS YOUR *NEW* *IMPROVED?!!

[@dks13827]

Yankees taking our women !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@terrytodd7396]

I lived in Tombstone in the early and mid 1970's. Seeing this video today shows me a few things. #1) The Tombstone of the 1970's is for the most part totally unrecognizable from today. #2) Tombstone has become a fake clownish tourist attraction. #3) Tombstone has "updated" itself right out of history. I had thoughts of taking my grandkids to Tombstone on vacation. But after seeing this, I realized Tombstone no longer exists. Very troubled by this video.

[@danfrakes5871]

Go back to sleep. 😊

[@angelagillett1033]

I wanted to move to tombstone lol

[@colinp2238]

One day you will be underneath one.

[@anthonymorelli1532]

BAD SHOTS LOL YOU DUMB LIBERAL I SEE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T HIT A PAPER TARGET AT 20 FT WITH ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD TO AIM TRY DOING IT WHILE BEING SHOT AT BY 4 PEOPLE

[@TheBatugan77]

Shove your CAPS LOCK, buddy.

[@anthonymorelli1532]

​@@TheBatugan77 OH GO FUCK YOURSELF AND YOUR I'M YELLING PC BULLSHIT I THOUGHT ALL YOU ASSHOLES WERE DEAD

[@gustavderkits8433]

Entertaining but full of crap as well

[@danfrakes5871]

We're you there ?

[@maryschwarzenberger9274]

Like KZbin doll Nicki talking about 2 I know two don't let it be damn how like a damn fight life is like a solo and he talked about like it's charging me and you can write me my cell phone number. And you can call me my cell phone number.