Thirty shots in thirty seconds. Three cowboys dead. Two Earp brothers and Doc Holiday were wounded. And the most famous gunfight in the old west... The result was the Cochise County War. The cowboys made assassination attempts against the Earp family - Virgil was shot in the arm and lost the use of his left arm, and Morgan was shot in the back and was killed - which resulted in the Earp Vendetta Ride.
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