w Tombstone was finding all kinds of action weather it be on the streets or in the saloons and at the poker tables there was shooting all the time, stabbings, and just plain ol' bar fights Tombstone had it all. Doc and Kate would finally be in Tombstone in 1880 in late June."(Dee Brown, 1993) "Virgil Earp was made City Marshal in Tombstone for a time, but failed in the up coming elections for lawmen the next two years. A big robbery that had brought trouble to Tombstone was the one that over-took Kinnear's Stage that was carrying money. Two men were killed during the robbery, that of the driver and a passenger riding along side the driver. The word was that there were four men that were involved with the robbery, Bill Leonard, Jim crane, Harry Head, and Doc Holliday. Wyatt not wanting to believe that his friend Doc was involved had stood up for him. The Earps in hot pursuit of Leonard, Crane, and Head, A seventeen-day search and they returned empty handed. Wyatt then made a deal with Ike Clanton to bring his friends down and Wyatt would give Ike a reward for their capture. Later that same year Crane the last survivor was killed by Wyatt, now leaving Doc to feel safe from all people trying to blame the robbery on him. After that had happened Wyatt had reason to believe that Ike had spread word about Wyatt's deal with him that Ike later rejected, and now Wyatt was after him and anybody else that would get in his way."(Pat Jahns, 1957)"The final finale of the law and law breakers would begin when a drunken Ike Clanton had been giving threats toward the Earps and Holliday the night of October 25, 1881. Roaming to different saloons threatening them with violence, they came to the Oriental in which Wyatt had partly owned. The bar is one of the favorites of the Earp clan; where occasionally Morgan and Doc had worked as faro dealers. Ike was challenged later that night by Holliday to a gunfight in which he refused after all his tra...
