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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.
07:31Ike wanted to send something out of Tombstone. You know.
07:39Here.
07:40Here.
07:43Here.
07:45Here.
07:47Here.
07:48Here.
07:48Here.
07:50Here.
07:56Here.
08:03with this can we drop these flaps
08:33so
08:57On December 14th, 1881, Mayor 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.
09:59But Ike realized it didn't matter that Klum survived.
10:03All that mattered was the town was once again living in fear.
10:08And 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, to Tom Fitch, and probably others,
11:03notifying them that they were on a hit list and that they were out to get them.
11:09It was getting very dangerous in Tombstone at that time.
11:13It 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 Sierra Spicer and Klum and anybody else who fought them that would put
11:49them in more of a position of power to control the area.
11:52Cheers.
11:54Cheers.
11:55Cheers.
11:58Cheers.
12:04Let's do another one.
12:06Here we go.
12:09Who's it from?
12:13Ike.
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.
12:44You'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.
13:41And it was completely wrong.
13:41It was a very large art skill that they could live in the middle.
13:41And it was me.
13:41Let's take a look at the day.
13:42Ike has been saying.
13:42It has been a great deal.
13:42Ike has been a great deal.
13:52It has been a great deal.
13:57Boy, that's how you do it.
13:59There you go.
14:00That's my boy.
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, Wai, you're up.
14:35All right, Wai, you're up.
14:48Virgil, Virgil.
14:53Go 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.
15:10You should have got all three.
15:13You want to go back?
15:14No.
15:17One day to represent up for tonight.
15:18Do I have to?
15:21No.
15:22No.
15:36No.
15:37No!
15:38No!
15:39No!
15:39No!
15:39No!
15:46No!
15:46shots had torn into his back and struck his kidney, liver, and spine.
15:55Virgil was being cared for by George Goodfellow, the same doctor who treated him after the
16:01gunfight 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
16:39the trigger.
16:45Incredibly, Virgil Erb survived the shooting, but 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?
17:22Wyatt?
17:24Wyatt?
17:26Wyatt?
17:28Wyatt?
17:52Wyatt had gotten word that Ike was holed up at his ranch.
18:01Wähed that Ike's foolish.
18:22moved on.
18:29And this is where the story takes another turn,
18:39because the cowboys started robbing stagecoaches.
18:48You see, unlike the first stagecoach robbery
18:50that wasn't sanctioned by Ike,
18:52he was fully behind these.
18:56And Ike took robbing stagecoaches to another level.
19:04On January 6th, the cowboys attack a Wells Fargo stagecoach
19:07leaving Tombstone and steal a strong box
19:10containing almost $7,000.
19:12A day later, they rob another stagecoach
19:15heading into Tombstone, this time robbing all the passengers,
19:18including Wells Fargo's own chief detective.
19:22The cowboys robbed somewhere between six and eight stagecoaches
19:27in Arizona territory.
19:28For Wells Fargo, this made people not want
19:32to use their Express Company.
19:34It 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
19:52to get money from investors, so he could take over
19:56the railroads in America.
20:09But everything was now on hold,
20:11because investors thought America was a dangerous place
20:14to put their money.
20:19Morgan couldn't understand why the president
20:22wasn't doing anything about it.
20:26He knew his only chance of getting his deal back
20:30was if he returned to America to sort out the mess.
20:35the bus just sn arred
20:48by him.
20:49Oh, thank you.
20:53Oh, yeah, I'm just a person,
20:56Oh, yeah.
20:56Oh, yeah.
20:57Oh, yeah.
20:58Oh, yeah, I'm really okay.
20:58Oh, yeah.
20:59Oh, yeah, I'm really okay.
21:01Oh, yeah, I'm so wrong.
21:02Oh, yeah, I'm really okay.
21:02Oh, yeah, I'm so all right.
21:05Back in America, J.P. Morgan used one of the favorite weapons of the wealthy, his influence.
21:20You see, Morgan helped put President Chester Arthur into power, and that bought him a lot of influence.
21:33Well, just like today, whoever writes the checks determines the policy, even for presidents.
21:38And in the Gilded Age, that man was J.P. Morgan.
21:46A band of armed desperados, known as the Cowboys.
21:52And strangely enough, shortly after J.P. Morgan returned to America, President Arthur suddenly decided to make a speech to
22:01Congress to 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, the government passed the Posse Comitatus Act.
22:23The Posse Comitatus Act stops federal troops from being used as law enforcement within the United States of America.
22:31It's a basic sort of bedrock principle of 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.
22:48President Arthur's party, the Republicans, don't have a majority in Congress.
22:53And there's no way Southern congressmen could have supported this, which effectively would have been tantamount to sending an army
22:59into Arizona, which is seen as a Southern stronghold.
23:03But it got worse.
23:06When the newspapers got hold of Arthur's speech, they 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 by asking Congress for the authority to send in the army to
23:29deal with the Cowboys.
23:32But this move backfires.
23:40President Arthur's speech to Congress played right into Ike Clanton's hands.
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 business interests that saw the Cowboys as a bunch of
24:08criminals that need to be eliminated.
24:10And then many in the South identified with the Cowboys as fighting for freedom and living free out on the
24:16frontier.
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.
25:11I could buy you time, but...
25:14I can't stop him.
25:17He's coming for you.
25:21Ike may have felt emboldened by the press, but the fact remained, he was scared of Wyatt.
25:40Arrest 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.
26:10All rise.
26:13This court is now in session.
26:16Mr. Clanton, where were you on the night of December 28th, 1881, when Virgil Earp was brutally shot?
26:26You should've got all three.
26:28No.
26:29One day it hurt us 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. Do you recognize it?
27:02Yep, it's my hat.
27:09I lost it some time ago. Reckon it was stolen.
27:17Ike's hat was actually found where the shooter of Virgil Earp was, and yet, alibi witnesses testified that Ike was
27:25down in Charleston, so there was no way to hold him over.
27:30And that was it. The case was thrown out. And Ike was free to go.
27:51What happened?
27:52What happened?
27:54The whole goddamn thing is wrecked.
27:58Uh, Mr. Clanton! Mr. Clanton! Mr. Clanton, can we get your statement?
28:01Mr. Clanton!
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!
28:21Don't!
28:22And here he comes!
28:22Don't!
28:25It's not worth it.
28:42Gentlemen, thank you. Let's go.
28:51It doesn't take much more than seemingly open-shut case, where Ike Clanton leaves his hat at the scene of
28:58the crime and still gets away with it.
29:00That would shake anybody's, uh, 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.
29:45Ike had one other advantage.
30:11Ike had one other advantage.
30:15He was untouchable.
30:32Just gotta find one good witness.
30:36Like that guy Sills.
30:40Yeah.
30:46It's not gonna happen.
30:52No, there's gotta be a way.
30:55And that was Wyatt's problem.
30:58He really thought he could just get Ike back into court and justice would be served.
31:03It's like he needed to have it spelled out for him.
31:13You're never gonna get that in.
31:15Watch him learn.
31:20Morg!
31:25Morg!
31:26Shit!
31:41Morg!
31:42Morg!
31:43Morg!
31:43Morg!
31:44Hey!
31:45Stay with me.
31:48Jesus!
31:50He's all right.
31:51He'll be all right.
32:00Dr. Goodfellow was there within minutes.
32:11What?
32:18Do you know who did it?
32:23Yeah.
32:26I'm gonna get him.
32:39I'm gonna do it.
32:40No way!
32:43So...
32:46Do you know what I did?
32:47I'm gonna do it very well.
32:47I got to put my hands up.
32:47I can't, no, no.
32:47You can't get it.
32:48I'm gonna fall.
32:48I'm gonna go.
32:48And, I'm gonna do it.
32:49No way.
32:50What?
32:50I'll do it.
32:58Within the hour, Morgan Earp was dead.
33:26Morgan's death was crutching to Wyatt.
33:32It just tore him apart.
33:38It was the worst thing that happened in his life.
33:49Goddamn cowboys.
33:54I'm gonna kill every one of them.
33:57I'm gonna kill every one of them.
34:27I'm gonna kill every one of them.
34:56I'm gonna kill every one of them.
35:53I'm gonna kill every one of them.
35:56I'm gonna kill every one of them.
36:15I'm gonna kill every one of them.
36:15I'm gonna kill every one of them.
36:21I'm gonna kill every one of them.
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