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THE OLD WEST-AAR Host Mark Walters enjoying the  High Desert on the outskirts of Tombstone Arizona, Feb 2008. (Notice the brass flying against the backdrop of the sky)

Scheduled guests Alan Korwin and Kenn Blanchard in this hour were unable to be on tonight and will be rescheduled for a future show. 

WHAT A SHOW!  This week we deviate from the modern day world of self defense and have a little fun as I take you back 128 years to the dusty streets of the old west.  I promise you one of the funnest  radio programs you have ever listened to…and a great history lesson to boot!

Tonight I take you to the city of Tombstone Az and the legends who made it the  ”Town too tough to die”.  Founded in 1879 by Ed Schiefflin, Tombstone Az became  known as the “wildest, roughest,wickedest honky tonk between Basin Street and the Barbary Coast”.  Later, Tombstone would become forever immortalized for  The Gunfight at The OK Corral.  Lasting a mere 30 seconds, this street brawl between the Earps and the Clanton gang went down in the books as the most famous gunfight in American western history. 

Tonight you will learn the history of the fight that took place at near point blank range that resulted in the deaths of Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury and Billy Clanton at the hands of the Earps and Doc Holliday.    

Join me and my guest  Terry “Ike” Clanton…fourth generation cousin of Billy Clanton who was killed by the Earps and Holliday on October 26th, 1881.  Walk those dusty streets with me as Terry tells us the Clanton’s side of the gunfight never told by Hollywood.  An active member of the Screen Actors Guild and The Outlaws and Lawmen Association, Terry is an avid gunslinger himself and has ranked as high as 38th in the worlds Fast Draw Championships.  You will hear amazing family history and eyewitness accounts passed on from those who were THERE and get the facts that don’t seem to make it to the big screen. 

For cryin out loud, THIS WAS GREAT.

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