Sam Elliot as Virgil Earp Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp Mescal Arizona Tombstone film 1993
by David Lee Guss
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Sam Elliot as Virgil Earp Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp Mescal Arizona Tombstone film 1993
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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The Earp brothers in the O.K. Corral gunfight, shot at Old Tucson's Mescal set built in 1969 for "Monte Walsh" starring Lee Marvin and Jack Palance.
C.S. Fly Gallery is in background.
"Camillus Buck Sydney Fly (May 2, 1849 - October 12, 1901) was an Old West photographer who is regarded by some as an early photojournalist and who captured the only known images of Native Americans while still at war with the United States. He took many other pictures of life in mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona and the surrounding region. He recognized the value of his photographs to illustrate periodicals of the day and took his camera to the scenes of important events where he deliberately recorded them and resold pictures to editors nationwide.
He was an eyewitness on October 26, 1881 to the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which took place outside his photography studio. He took pictures of a number of Tombstone residents including tombstone founder Ed Schieffelin, pioneer surgeon Dr. George E. Goodfellow, Wyatt Earp's wife Josephine, and others.
He served as Cochise County Sheriff from 1895 to 1897. Most of his negatives were destroyed by two fires that burned his studio to the ground. His widow Mary donated his remaining images to the Smithsonian Museum before she died in 1912. His photographs are legendary and highly prized."
While he didn�t take photos of the gunfight he did of the loser's coffins laid out in a store window.
The celebrated gunfight was actually closer to Fly�s Gallery than the O.K. Corral.
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October 12th, 2015
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