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00:19As strange as it may seem, people in the Old West celebrated Christmas pretty much the
00:24same as today. Yep, Christmas trees, decorations, presents. And in Tombstone, people had even
00:33more reason to celebrate. The Earps had been acquitted, and Ike Clanton and the Cowboys had
00:40been defeated. And the strange thing, the Cowboys kind of just disappeared. I mean, nobody had
00:54seen any of them. The rumor going around town was that the Cowboys had disbanded. But there
01:01was another rumor. That the Cowboys were regrouping, and were about to get their revenge.
01:25Tombstone was once again a peaceful town. And it was all thanks to the Earps. Morgan and
01:41Virgil had recovered from their wounds, and people talked about Wyatt as if he was already
01:46a legend. Even Doc was being praised. Before the gunfight, he was a lowlife, someone you
01:58cross the street to avoid. And now here he was, mingling with the top brass. I think if
02:05the verdict in the courts would have gone the other way, we would be remembering them as
02:08the murderers of the O.K. Corral. But instead, they were found innocent. And hence, their status
02:15as heroes ran high. Ladies and gentlemen. Here we go. It is my honor to welcome back the heroes
02:26who took a stand against the Cowboys who have plagued this town. Meet John Clum, the mayor of
02:36Tombstone. Clum was a New Yorker who'd come to Tombstone to get rich. And he did, thanks
02:43to his share in the silver mines. Then he used those profits to start up a newspaper. John
02:49Clum started the epitaph. He would then be editor, postmaster, and mayor all at the same
02:57time. When the good people of Tombstone... Clum had stayed quiet during the trial. But once
03:03the Earps were acquitted, you couldn't shut him up. These men risked their lives and their
03:08freedom. He was one of those people who only becomes vocal once someone else has knocked
03:13the bully down. To bring back peace to this town. Please, raise your glasses to the Earps.
03:36This is a token of gratitude. The whole town really, really appreciates what you both have played.
03:45Thank you. Thank you. No, thank you.
04:01If you're wondering what is going on between Wyatt, Josephine, and Sheriff Behan, well, some
04:08say Behan kicked Josephine out. Others say she left him. Either way, she was free to be
04:15with Wyatt. Albeit secretly.
04:39You backed the wrong side.
04:43So what?
04:47The people want you gone.
04:55Well, I'm still here. I ain't going nowhere.
05:08Johnny Behan thought his political ambitions were in trouble after the trial. There was an
05:15election coming up for County Sheriff in another year. Johnny Behan could not stand to have this
05:23kind of stain on his reputation. He was going to have to do something.
05:30Faced with being run out of Tombstone, Behan went to find the one person who could help him.
05:47Where's Ike? No idea. Yeah. Where was Ike? I mean, one minute he was everywhere.
06:08And now, he was nowhere.
06:25Shortly after the trial, Ike left Tombstone and headed back to his ranch. He needed to be
06:32think.
06:35For any criminal organization, whether it's the Mafia, whether it's the Cowboys, they think
06:40they can do whatever they want and it's never going to catch up with them. Well, what the trial
06:45kind of showed, they're not above the law and maybe their day is over.
06:5620 men. Give me 20 men and I'll get them. No more open battles. No more gunfights. We're
07:15going back to the old ways. This road leads out of Tombstone.
07:22Ike wanted to send out a warning to all the people of Tombstone. That the Cowboys were
07:28as powerful as ever. All right.
07:56They'll take care with us.
08:04Can we drop these flaps?
08:28Can we drop these flaps?
08:30Can we drop these flaps?
09:00Mayor Klum's stagecoach was brutally attacked by the Cowboys.
09:05But incredibly, Klum survived.
09:10Not only that, but he wrote about it in his newspaper, The Epitaph.
09:20On December 14th, there was an assassination attempt on Mayor Klum, but miraculously, he survived.
09:31The townspeople of Tombstone are known to be fearful for their lives.
09:38Mayor Klum...
09:41Now you can imagine Ike was pissed that Klum wasn't killed.
09:45After all, he'd organized the hit.
09:55Fearful for their lives.
09:58But Ike realized it didn't matter that Klum survived.
10:03All that mattered was the town was once again living in fear.
10:09And fear was exactly what he needed to regain his power in Tombstone.
10:25Ike decided to make this Christmas an unforgettable one.
10:33Instead of Christmas cards, Ike sent out death threats.
10:54At the end of the year, the Cowboys issued anonymous threats to Judge Spicer,
11:00to Tom Fitch, and probably others, notifying them that they were on a hit list and that they were out
11:05to get them.
11:09It was getting very dangerous in Tombstone at that time.
11:22It was the final straw for Mayor Klum.
11:25He left town and moved to California.
11:40The Cowboys were attempting to intimidate and scare Spicer and Klum and anybody else who fought them
11:48that would put them in more of a position of power to control the area.
11:53Cheers.
11:54Cheers.
11:55Cheers.
11:59Cheers.
12:04Let's do another one.
12:10Who's it from?
12:13Ike.
12:14Ike.
12:15Ike.
12:31The Earps saw their future in Tombstone.
12:35To be run out by a lawless element just went against everything they stood for.
12:41These were lawmen, and you're going to stand up for yourself, you're not going to be run out of town.
12:46It's principle.
12:53When Ike heard the Earps weren't going anywhere, he had no choice but to up the ante.
13:12What we do know is Virgil was told that the Cowboys had come together and met and written out an
13:20oath to murder all the Earps.
13:22And it was written in the blood of outlawed Shirley Bill.
13:27It's actually the Cowboys who went through her toĆtulo school.
13:32Let me see going.
13:43It was Batman's related caught.
13:55Here's what Dar Bryl and the Earpsģ.
13:56And it was both an inch and a minute ago.
13:56Here's the Š
13:57Oy, that's how you do it.
13:59There you go.
14:00All right, just one more.
14:02Double or nothing, Virg?
14:03Nope.
14:04Don't even try it.
14:05All right.
14:06I'm going home.
14:08All right, Virg.
14:10And don't let this young gentleman out, dude.
14:13All right.
14:20All right, Marshal.
14:21Gentlemen, good evening.
14:25All right, Wyatt, you're up.
14:34Let's go.
14:48Virgil.
14:49Virgil.
14:52Go get help.
14:55Virgil is ambushed out of the darkness with shotguns.
15:01Terribly wounded.
15:02Of course, everyone knew the cowboys were behind it.
15:10We should have got all three.
15:13You want to go back?
15:14No.
15:17One day to represent up for tonight.
15:18Oh, it's fine.
15:47It's fine.
15:48and struck his kidney, liver, and spine.
15:55Virgil was being cared for by George Goodfellow,
15:58the same doctor who treated him after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral just two months earlier.
16:10I found this.
16:26Ike flees after shooting Virgil, and he leaves his hat.
16:31Who leaves their hat behind?
16:32I mean, who does that?
16:34But that's what happened, and that's how Wyatt came to believe Ike was one of those that pulled the trigger.
16:45Incredibly, Virgil Erb survived the shooting.
16:49But he'd be maimed for life.
16:56In no time, Wyatt assembled a posse to bring Ike in for the attempted murder of his brother.
17:10Wyatt?
17:16The hell you going?
17:18Where do you think?
17:20Wyatt?
17:21Wyatt?
17:24Wyatt?
17:25Wyatt?
17:25I swear to God, Wyatt.
17:28Wyatt?
17:52Wyatt had gotten word that Ike was holed up at his ranch.
18:01Wait here.
18:03Wait here.
18:20But Ike and his gang had moved on.
18:28And this is where the story takes another turn.
18:39Because the cowboys started robbing stagecoaches.
18:47You see, unlike the first stagecoach robbery that wasn't sanctioned by Ike, he was fully behind these.
18:56And Ike took robbing stagecoaches to another level.
19:03On January 6th, the cowboys attack a Wells Fargo stagecoach leaving Tombstone and steal a strongbox containing almost $7,000.
19:11A day later, they rob another stagecoach heading into Tombstone, this time robbing all the passengers, including Wells Fargo's own
19:20chief detective.
19:22The cowboys robbed somewhere between six and eight stagecoaches in Arizona territory.
19:29For Wells Fargo, this made people not want to use their express company.
19:35It was just very bad for business.
19:44And that made it very bad for J.P. Morgan.
19:49He was still in London, trying to close a deal to get money from investors, so he could take over
19:56the railroads in America.
20:08But everything was now on hold, because investors thought America was a dangerous place to put their money.
20:19Morgan couldn't understand why the president wasn't doing anything about it.
20:26He knew his only chance of getting his deal back was if he returned to America to sort out the
20:34mess.
21:05Back in America, J.P. Morgan used one of the favorite weapons of the wealthy.
21:13His influence.
21:20You see, Morgan helped put President Chester Arthur into power.
21:27And that bought him a lot of influence.
21:33Well, just like today, whoever writes the checks determines the policy, even for presidents.
21:39And in the Gilded Age, that man was J.P. Morgan.
21:46A band of armed desperadoes, known as the Cowboys.
21:52And strangely enough, shortly after J.P. Morgan returned to America,
21:57President Arthur suddenly decided to make a speech to Congress
22:01to ask their permission to let him send in the army against the Cowboys.
22:07He needed their permission because, well, it was illegal.
22:13Let me explain.
22:15To keep the peace between the North and South after the Civil War,
22:19the government passed the Posse Comitatus Act.
22:23The Posse Comitatus Act stops federal troops from being used as law enforcement
22:29within the United States of America.
22:31It's a basic sort of bedrock principle
22:34of keeping the U.S. military out of civilian affairs.
22:41But the whole thing blew up in his face.
22:46The speech is a disaster.
22:49President Arthur's party, the Republicans, don't have a majority in Congress.
22:53And there's no way Southern congressmen could have supported this,
22:56which effectively would have been tantamount to sending an army into Arizona,
23:01which is seen as a Southern stronghold.
23:03But it got worse.
23:06When the newspapers got hold of Arthur's speech,
23:09they whipped up hysteria by saying America was involved in a war.
23:16The Cowboy War.
23:19This is one of those important, unknown chapters in American history.
23:24President Arthur thinks he's doing the right thing
23:26by asking Congress for the authority to send in the army to deal with the Cowboys.
23:32But this move backfires.
23:40President Arthur's speech to Congress played right into Ike Clanton's hands.
23:46Marks in my eyes.
23:48Newspapers across the South started to see the Cowboys as part of their cause.
23:53The Cowboys are the true voice of America.
23:58Hell yeah.
24:00So the President's speech really divides the nation.
24:04On one hand, you have many in the North and the business interests
24:06that saw the Cowboys as a bunch of criminals that need to be eliminated.
24:10And then many in the South identified with the Cowboys as fighting for freedom
24:14and living free out on the frontier.
24:18And you can imagine Ike was loving this.
24:29There was only one problem.
24:36He was still wanted for the attempted murder of Virgil.
24:42And Wyatt had gotten wind of where Ike was hiding out.
25:04How many of them?
25:05Seven.
25:21Ike may have felt emboldened by the press, but the fact remained he was scared of Wyatt.
25:39Arrest me.
25:59Now, why would Ike turn himself in?
26:04One reason was that it protected him from Wyatt.
26:09But there was another reason.
26:11All rise.
26:13This court is now in session.
26:16Mr. Clanton, where were you on the night of December 28, 1881,
26:21when Virgil Earp was brutally shot?
26:26You should have got all three.
26:28No. One dead Earp was enough for tonight.
26:32I was in Charleston.
26:38Ike got seven witnesses to confirm his alibi.
26:47Mr. Clanton, this hat was found near the crime scene.
26:53Do you recognize it?
27:02Yep, it's my hat.
27:09I lost it some time ago.
27:11Reckon it was stolen.
27:17Ike's hat was actually found where the shooter of Virgil Earp was.
27:22And yet, alibi witnesses testified that Ike was down in Charleston.
27:26So there was no way to hold him over.
27:30And that was it.
27:32The case was thrown out.
27:35And Ike was free to go.
27:51What happened?
27:54Oh, goddamn, the thing is wrecked.
27:58Mr. Clanton.
27:59Mr. Clanton.
28:00Mr. Clanton, can we get your statement?
28:03Today was a great victory, not just for me, but for American justice.
28:09I was falsely accused of attempted murder.
28:13But we all know there is only one murderer in this town.
28:20Wyatt.
28:21Go.
28:22And here he comes.
28:22Don't.
28:24Go on it.
28:25It's not worth it.
28:35It's not worth it.
28:42Gentlemen, thank you.
28:43Let's go.
28:51It doesn't take much more than seemingly open and shut case where Ike Clanton leaves his hat at the scene
28:58of the crime and still gets away with it.
29:00That would shake anybody's view of justice.
29:07Wyatt must have thought the world had gone crazy.
29:11Ike had gotten away with trying to kill Virgil.
29:14While Wyatt, an honest lawman, was being called a murderer in some circles.
29:28And as for Ike, he was sitting pretty.
29:32He's a man.
29:33As far as he was concerned, he was back in control of Tombstone.
29:39I mean, he eliminated Virgil, the town's marshal.
29:44And he had one other advantage.
29:45He had one other advantage.
30:15untouchable he's got to find one good witness like that guy Sils yeah
30:46it's not gonna happen it's gotta be away and that was Wyatt's problem he really
30:59thought he could just get Ike back into court and justice would be served it's
31:04like he needed to have it spelled out for you're never gonna get that in
31:14watch him learn
31:19Morg
31:25Morg
31:26Morg
31:27Morg
31:41Morg
31:43Morg
31:43Morg
31:44Morg
31:44hey
31:45stay with me
31:47Jesus
31:48He's alright
31:50He's alright
31:55Dr. Goodfellow was there within minutes
32:12what
32:18Do you know who did it?
32:23Yeah.
32:26I'm gonna get him.
32:58Within the hour, Morgan Earp was dead.
33:26Morgan's death was crutching to Wyatt.
33:32It just tore him apart.
33:37It was the worst thing that happened in his life.
33:49Goddamn cowboys.
33:54I'm gonna kill every one of them.
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