O.K. CORRAL
Historic Site — Tombstone, Arizona
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/o-k-corral-tombstone-arizona/

The 1881 gunfight site—30 seconds that made Tombstone.

O.K. Corral is a historic site in Tombstone, Arizona. The 1881 gunfight site—30 seconds that made Tombstone. It sits in the archive under the Old West and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

The O.K. Corral is the gunfight that wasn't there — the 1881 shootout that happened in a vacant lot on Fremont Street, not in the corral on Allen. The Earps and Doc Holliday killed the Clantons and McLaurys in 30 seconds; the corral got the name.
The corral was the livery — the 'Old Kindersley' stable that was one of eight in Tombstone, the building that burned in 1882 and was rebuilt. The 1957 movie fixed it in the public mind; the actual gunfight site is a block away.
The corral is still there — the reenactments that happen in the wrong place, the Tombstone Historic District that markets it, the corral that's the gunfight's namesake. The file keeps the O.K. Corral: the 1881 shootout, the Fremont Street truth, and the corral that's still the legend.
The O.K. Corral is the archive's gunfight file — the 30-second shootout, the wrong location, and the corral that's still Tombstone's draw.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The O.K. Corral is the archive's gunfight file — the 1881 shootout, the Fremont Street site, and the corral that's the West's most famous.
A corral that's the wrong place keeps its name — the file's suggestion being that the O.K.'s hold is the misnomer: the vacant lot where it happened, the corral where it didn't, and the legend that's still there.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Media reported] historical legend: The gunfight is documented history—its legend layer is enormous but grounded. O. K. O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. The account appears in 'O. K. Corral'. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.
  source: O.K. Corral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K._Corral_(building))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The October 26, 1881 gunfight is documented; three cowboys were killed. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'O.K. Corral'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· O.K. Corral — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.K._Corral_(building)

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