High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a roughly 30-second gunfight that took place at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona Territory, of the United States. Outlaw Cowboys Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne ran from the fight, unharmed, but Ike`s brother Billy Clanton, along with Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury, were killed. Lawmen Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp and Doc Holliday were wounded and survived. Only Wyatt Earp came through the fight unharmed. It is generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the Old West and has come to represent a time in American history when the frontier was open range for outlaws who were opposed by the thin ranks of law enforcement forced to cover vast territories, leaving some areas unprotected.