Wyatt Earp's Rivals: Old Man Clanton and the Cowboys

The Earps' biggest rivals in Tombstone were the Clantons, but the most interesting Clanton wasn't at the O.K. Corral. The History Guy remembers "Old Man" Clanton and the Cowboys.
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[@terrywaters6186]

Wyatt Earp worked with John Wayne in his early acting career. That's history that deserves to be remembered.

[@davidhill8968]

I read somewhere that John Wayne learned his Swagger when he walked from Wyatt Earp.

[@garyg2318]

Well, he wasn't a very good coach! John Wayne was a much better actor in the beginning of his career.

[@terrywaters6186]

@@garyg2318 That’s when Earp coached him.

[@diabolicaljayofficial]

There's conflicting evidence to support this. In an interview (which I can't seem to find rn) John Wayne commented that he was coached by director John Ford, who was a personal friend of Wyatt Earp. Nevertheless, it is widely accepted that John Wayne did model many of his mannerisms on Wyatt Earp. As to who really coached him... that may be lost to history.

[@arejaycee5484]

Heard on a podcast that this meeting was unsubstantiated and may never have happened at all Could just be legend.

[@Ronin4614]

The more I hear from various historians, the more I admire the work done on the Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, et.al. film “Tombstone”. Things seem to have been recreated accurately and very well portrayed. Thank you for this video.

[@alwilson3204]

@Ronin4614 In spite of the claims made by this channel, or the naivete of old man Clanton's involvement with illegal cattle rustlers. There was too much evidence of criminality with the well connected cowboy factions for those statements to be considered valid.

[@jonathanwilson3254]

As newly minted US citizens from Europe (totally legal!), our family toured most of the great historical sights of this beautiful country. This included Tombstone and we saw these famous gravesites. Not a town for the faint hearted! We also toured Arizona which included Camp Verde (frontier army base key to the Apache Wars). If you visit Camp Verde the video tours of the main army buildings were produced by our (then) 16 year old daughter (fascinated by the biography of army wife of the period, Martha Summerhayes - Vanishing Arizona), which led to her being named as Arizona State Parks Board Volunteer of the Year. Arizona is truly a beautiful state with a fascinating multi layered history.

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[@Neilazbiker]

I've been to the Clanton ranch. Its high tech for the day. The small house was made from hollow core interlocking pumice concrete block. Strong, lightweight and insulated. Innovative the day. Its about a miles walk south of Escapule road on the west side of the San Pedro river just west of Tombstone Arizona.

[@arcade85_]

Didn't know it was there; I'll go visit. Thanks. My McRae ancestors settled in St. David (Cochise County) in 1879, just prior to the gunfight at the O.K. corral. I often wonder what they thought of the happenings at Tombstone.

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What about Curly, Larry and Moe?

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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel And That deserves to be remembered!!! I love your presentation of all history topics, but especially love ones of our (US) history, best of all the old west! I've read all about the Tombstone events and books about Wyatt and family, as well as the Clantons, and still learn more from you!

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Just returned from a trip to Tombstone and Boot Hill. With so much history, hype, and folk lore, it is fascinating to see where this all happened. Thanks for the history lesson. Very well researched.👌

[@flkoolguy]

I love the line, we're the Clantons troublemakers or good citizens, many in the wild west were a mixture of both. Which seems to be spot on. Even Earp was no angel. But times were different, and we definitely have to keep history in context. Taking it out of context is what leads to attempts at erasing it. Love your presentation THG. I watch a couple vids every day on my lunch break.

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Wyatt Earp took a posse that included two other Earp brothers, James and Warren, and also Hell. Hell went with him.

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That whole scene is poetic/film makers license.

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I love living in Southern Arizona. I've visited Tombstone countless times. The history in this area is amazing.

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Next to the movie "Tombstone" that's a favorite movie also~!!

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Cattlemen who are also rustlers, sheriffs who may be wanted men in other states. You could make a lot of money selling grey hats.

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Big Blue the Earps were in a posse being pursued by a posse.

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[@spencertwitty8349]

Awsome thanks again for the stories .

[@frankclary55]

Hi there, Thank you for a great episode, I'm a distant relative of the Clantons, and I had no idea about how wild and crazy they really were, keep up the good work, love it ,thanks

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Just because your last name is Clanton, dosen't mean you are related.

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T just because you know how to poke buttons With one finger doesnt mean your a genius ja. .

[@stevemccarty6384]

I've been to Tombstone several times and always enjoy the visit. I was warned once not to be too vocal about my support of the Earp boys because there are still a lot of relatives of the Clantons and Maclaureys around town who take umbridge against the old lawmen.

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I liken you to Paul Harvey's the rest of the story stories. And may I say your version is much appreciated. Thank you!

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the history accounts you did match up with that hit movie Tombstone" All Star Cast & one of my Favorite cowboy movies" packed with action start to finish"

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Skeleton Canyon and Tombstone, Death Valley and Cape Fear. I'm guessing life used to be less comfortable back in the day when they were naming new places.

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You sir are one on a short list of my favorite presenters. Thank you,stay safe and keep being awesome!

[@marktaylor8659]

Thanks for presenting this video on the history of "Old Man Clanton". There have been so many movies about these men and these incidents, I've never quite known what to believe. My personal favorite legend has Walter Brennan playing Mr. Clanton.

[@JustJohnny]

History Buffs did a pretty good factual analysis on the film Tombstone but this is the first time I've heard of Old Man Clanton. Ike seems to get all the attention.

[@marktaylor8659]

@@JustJohnny - I agree on the likely accuracy of the film Tombstone. If you watch "My Darling Clementine", Walter Brennan plays Old Man Clanton and Henry Fonda plays Wyatt Earp. I would say the accuracy of the details is questionable, but it's a great movie.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Walter Brennan rocks, but My Darling Clementine had him dying after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. I love the movie Tombstone, but it is still a movie. A couple of Earps, for instance, were left out. The death of Curly Bill was more or less accurately portrayed, but the death of Johnny Ringo far more speculative. And, of course, Old Man Clanton wasn't even in the movie. I find the three massacres as interesting as the gunfight. i wonder why I've never seen them in a movie.

[@christineparis5607]

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel I was always intrigued by not only the number of Earp brothers, but the fact that most of them ran saloon/brothel combination businesses that were so popular back then. I read recently that Wyatt actually met his wife, Josephine, while she was working for his brother in one of those towns. They even went on to open saloons in the Klondike during the gold rush! I have a biography by Josephine Earp, but she sanitizes her past so thoroughly it gives the impression that she was on her way to Sunday school when she suddenly comes to in Tombstone!

[@christineparis5607]

Walter Brennan was the epitome of the bristled old cowboy, a true great!!

[@jhholliday4966]

Great information... I didn't know Old Man Clanton's death was so close to the shootout...Skeleton Canyon, I believe, played a part in the Tombstone Fight...

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Great report! i really enjoyed this. Thank you, Lance

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A very complicated story well told. Thanks for sharing this.

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They had some cool names.

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The casting for Tombstone was amazing. They looked so like their roles.

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Earp's and Holliday's characters in particular...

[@rogerscottcathey]

@@broznkyra4853 : absolutely brilliant acting, but in terms of Holladay, he was quite lanky, and tended towards a goitrogenic facial type, such as Don Knotts, of Billy Bob Thorton. Young Senior Earp was mistakenly identified as Wyatt, thus we wondered how the chops and mustachios suddenly disappeared, and bone structure, and ven accounting for baby fat would not yield the true face of a young Wyatt Earp. My oldest brother attests it was the most accurate of the Tombstone despictions, but as a participant in crafting the photography, I can only state, that "Who's that tall glass of water yonder" scene sold me that Earp could be a chisled, squarev jawed Serbian looking chap, a fellow of the Gendarmery, Bobby, Copper, even a Ranger. That particular scene I used a wind-up Kodak ©® "Eight-25". Thanks for your interest and comments. Be sure to hit that like button and visit our various Kurt and Val and the other's FBook Fan pages, and a bonus, my nearly completed PhD-MD oral challenge thesis Synopsis: Advert 4 Roger S. Cathey Letter to my Internet Associate Research writer and Medical Doctore, Maestro de Medici Dr. Raul Vergini, Author of The Miracle of Magnesium Chloride. . . (Currently In Translation from to the original Italian. Watch this web address for release date. Hello Raul, forgive my tardiness replying or following up, but all my internet connections were hacked and assaulted visciously by insurgents or teen-agers with nothing better to do than interrupt adult activities. Clever little rascals, lol. I will attempt to retrieve my tentative final editing (lol) of my collected papers on the relevance of hydrocyanic acid. . . "LAETRILE®"/"Vitamin B17" To both the evolution of DNA and as the oldest most primitive and simplest of the B vitamins The COENZYMES, the very core of all Co-Enzymes, and it's ability to ameliorate preclampsia ("morning sickness") Eclampsia vera, as well as other blood disorders in men: over-blood production, under blood production (homeostatic balancer) the leukemias, all cancers, and susceptibility to viral and pathogen intrusions or insults, such occuring only in the deficiency states of H•CN or R•CN, where R can be an radical useful to the homeostatic balancing that the adult body must continuously perform. Naturally these CoEnzymes and all hydrolytic enzymes require sufficient WATER, for proper function . . . H•CN is highly conserved, neutralized by a sulfurase, Rhodanese (Thiosulphate transulferase), which in red blood cells also releases -CN to attach to provitamin B12, making cyanocobalamin. This also obviates the necessity of exotic treatments of the Sickle Cell anemia crises, since those are simply exacerbated cases of vitamin "B17"/H•CN deficiency. End Part 5 (Complete series to be published April, 2021 . . . hopefully, lol,🤞😬🤓) "Buy Me a Coffee" www.buymeacoffee.com?via=fba1&FriendlyGAd&BmcAdSearch&April2020&gclid=Cj0KCQiAst2BBhDJARIsAGo2ldVifBy0hyMBHuGKl11hDNaIoza-DkgAvuyuQi4f0jHeluv8eYQ24xMaAkOdEALw_wcB

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I am going to cast every vid in this playlist to my TV today ..a great xmas gift thanks history guy.love the wild west storys.

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I really enjoy how u tell these stories I could listen 2 u all day! Great job sir

[@elvisjohnson1208]

I really enjoy your videos, They make you Feel like your there. History books have so many half truth's.

[@Tellgryn]

Doc Holiday was in Colorado when Johnny Ringo was killed. Johnny Ringo was killed on July 13 1882, Doc Holiday was in Salida, Colorado on July 7, and may have been in court on July 14 in Pueblo, Colorado and was in Leadville on July 18 (which is 700 miles from where Ringo was killed).

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Tellgryn I am of the opinion that he killed himself. He was known to be depressive, and was found with no boots or horse. Apparently he had the boots off and the horse startled and ran off with his boots. Miles from anywhere with no shoes, he took his own life. There was a point where Wyatt Earp was said to have claimed to kill him, but the description was not consistent with how the body was found.

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@@TheHistoryGuyChannel How about Buckskin Frank Leslie as suspect in Ringo case?

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Thank you for all this great information!

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You have great stories and I love the way you tell them. So glad to have found this chanel. I grew up in Arizona, not too far from Tombstone. i've always enjoyed hearing the history. I don't remember much of it now, but as a child was always thrilled when we'd go visit. Thank you.

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I suggest an episode on Pat Garrett post Billy the Kid, his troubled time as Customs Collector in El Paso, TX, his time as Doña Ana County Sheriff, the investigation of the Fountain murders and his eventual murder outside Las Cruces, NM.

[@dukecraig2402]

Not to mention his book about the "official" life of Billy the Kid was full of false information about things like Billy's age, he didn't want the world to know he shot a 19 year old, that has clouded everything about what really happened with all that, the liar who had co-written the book claimed he went to New York and found the baptismal records of Billy, he completely fabricated that part so the world would think Garrett killed a 21 year old instead of a 19 year old teenager, most of what's thought to be factual about Billy has been taken from that book and most of it's fabricated BS to make Garrett look good.

[@scotttilson8876]

I saw the movie too, johnny ringo was killed by Val Kilmer.

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Greatest performance of a character in History~!!!!

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I have decided that this is my favorite. Unless another vid is produced that is superior, I do not foresee this moving fm 1st Place anytime soon. Tks for making the topic you've selected, a most enjoyable history lesson and experience!

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Thank you History Guy I learn a lot from your videos and look forward to the next one

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Enjoyed the clips of the stagecoaches and wagons. It’s very likely my uncle Custer Post Park was one of the drivers. Hollywood considered him the beat stagecoach drivers with his ability to handle six horse teams. Regarding lost treasure you may want to investigate Chesaw, Washington and the massacre of McGhloughan Canon near Tonasket, Washington

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Gene Park possibly so- those were 1930s westerns. Quite a few never renewed the copyright and are in the Public Domain.

[@redradiodog]

Johnny Ringo was killed by Val Kilmer, I saw the movie!

[@burrichgrrl57]

redradiodog. He was his huckleberry.

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@SRV. 123 is Dory from finding nemo ur daughter? 😆

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@SRV. 123 And Dory thought you went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back 😢

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@SRV. 123 Huh?

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@Rest in peace to everyone i have Lost Not much gets past you, eh? What a dolt...

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These short history videos are great, keep up the good work!

[@bigearl3867]

You remind me of my old college History professor at U.T.Arlington, in Arlington, TX. He, like you could bring a person long gone to life, and he was good at bringing up the people on the fringes on a historical event in order that we may understand how they influenced major events.

[@SgtMjr]

The other interesting dynamic between the Earps and the Clantons was the political aspect of their relationship in Toombstone. The Earps were Republicans and the Clantons Democrats and beneath the legal squabbles were local politics split on party lines, a much underreported aspect of the famous feud.

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You are right on with that~!!!

[@dogman1117]

James Henry Holliday? I believe it is John Henry Holliday. None the less, EXCELLENT story and video!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

John is correct. If I said it wrong I apologize.

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Your right was John Henry “Doc” Holliday

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Can you do a story on smedly butler and how he stopped an attempt to overthrow the US Government? Most people never learn about smedly, a famous Marine.

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I haven't but now I'm interested.

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Just looked him up on wiki which isn't super reliable. He seems to have had a life that would make a great movie. Thx for the heads up.

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My version is he was a communist saving the movement to further expand in Washington. That doesn’t make him a hero. If you look at the evolution of DC and US politics it is now controlled by zionists. It’s the same thing that took over The Russian Monarchy. One difference is gun possession that prevents mass government killings.

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[@d.b.cooper2161]

@@petrokrasnov2967 your version is horribly inaccurate, skewed by neocon propaganda. He was quoted as saying such things as "War is a racket", and so war racketeers quickly slandered him as soon as possible, as tryants do. But don't believe me, research it for yourself.

[@paulboy9101]

The old timers I grew up around were of the age that were full of Western stories from Comanche raids on San Antone to Jesse James to Custer’s Last Stand and of course, Wounded Knee. I miss those childhood days and thank you for helping me relive those stories. The historically accurate versions this time around.

[@southernshop8424]

excellent work as always, thank you

[@mikeyoung9810]

It's always good to hear the history and not the 'romance' of the old west. Most of what movies and tv portray is myth and the old west was just a time in our history where there wasn't as much law, people had lots of guns and problems often got resolved with murder. No fancy fast draw on main street but just plain old murders committed most often when the murdered parties weren't looking.

[@grumblesa10]

"Cowboy" as it's used in British English (loose-cannon troublemaker) is close to the actual 19th Century usage. Outlaw "gangs" weren't very formal: usually a few close friends recruiting others as needed, then drifting apart until they needed money. One interesting detail of the OK Corral is testimony of witnesses who observed the Earps loading their revolvers. Normally one loaded one skipped one, then loaded four. This ensured that an empty cylinder was under the hammer to prevent accidental discharges (folks who own a 19th Century revolver or a reproduction do this today). What the witnesses saw were the Earps loading that cylinder implying they were expecting a fight.

[@ussemi4912]

History Guy, another interesting video.Keep up the great work.

[@timacrow]

Always wonderful, Mr. Guy

[@amywright2243]

Who down votes THG? This is one of the best places on the whole internet!

[@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys]

Obviously they are deranged~!!!!

[@charlespanasewicz9774]

I wholeheartedly concur! The sharing of knowledge and data was the genesis of the internet, and this site personifies that aim.

[@ifoundthisoldbook...8621]

How many descendants might be defending the Clantons?

[@WaterburnerActual]

Probably a Clanton relative.

[@americanmuscle3090]

My favorite is doc holiday. He knew how to enjoy life!

[@Kee2Oz]

@MysteryFan It slowed him down but didn't break his spirit.

[@lumox7]

He was a daisy.

[@290wayne]

I LOVE your channel... Love history!

[@KplusU]

Thanks, History Guy and Gal.

[@diGritz1]

Yep Old Man Clanton, that's what we used to call him..... Always yelling at us to stay off his grass. A friend finally yelled back there is no grass, it's all sand. So he shot him. At which point we all agreed it was grass.

[@erictaylor5462]

4:07 Did they have badges? Did the need stinking *BADGES?*

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Eric Taylor LOL - they do not appear to in the photographs.

[@chandlermcelroy7198]

thankyou for narrating a good chronological account of events of those days and great background history of some of the individuals involved. Cochise county as its now known has quite a bit of historical lore to learn.

[@maikailoa808]

Another great one, thank you very much. Ron

[@sharonmullins1957]

Reminds me of growing up with cowboy TV shows. Just a side note of no use, the McLaury brothers were handsome.

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Sharon Mullins the Earps as well.

[@unchained3502]

OK I'm convinced that kurt russel really was wyatt earp in a past life after seeing that picture. 😂

[@DanRagoo]

rebeldann ! That’s not possible as I was Wyatt Earp in a past life and everyone knows your looks does not get reincarnated with you.

[@reedwright301]

The legend of Wyatt Earp is a fallacy. This story of old man Clanton is so much better. Sounds like the godfather of Pinta County taken down by Mexican cattle cartel. Not some dandy, heartbroken wife beater running to his big brother Virgil after getting run out of Dodge. Wyatt Earp was a pussy

[@antoniog9814]

@@reedwright301 It's Pima County.

[@reedwright301]

Antonio Guerrero My bad, Pima Co.

[@unchained3502]

@@reedwright301 who the fuck has two last names anyway 😂 I thought two first names was bad lol

[@gillygil8747]

Thank you for your efforts.

[@malyoung7571]

I love the short snippets of forgotten history...….but a longer feature delivered so stylishly by the history guy would be compelling viewing!