![]() Ike Clanton was shot and killed two years later during an attempted robbery. ![]() The power of the Red Sash Cowboy Gang was broken forever.They emerge as the earliest example of organized crime in America. Attracted to this atmosphere of greed, over 100 exiled Texas outlaws band together to form the ruthless gang recognized by the red sashes they wear. Tombstone becomes queen of the boom towns where the latest Paris fashions are sold from the backs of wagons. Earp's friend, John "Doc" Holliday, a southern gentlemen turned gunman and gambler, also travels west, hoping the dry climate will relieve his tuberculosis. Out of this chaos comes legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, retiring his badge and gun to start a peaceful life for his family. Cattle growers turn cow towns into armed camps, with murder rates higher than than those of modern day New York or Los Angeles. Farmers, ranchers, prospectors, killers, and thieves seek their fortune. 1879 - the Civil War is over, and the resulting economic explosion spurs the great migration west.Remember what I said about dying people seeing a white light? It ain't true! I can't see a damn thing!.You look up and you think, "God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me." It's kind of flattering, really. I don't think I'll let you arrest us today, Behan.You called down the thunder, well, now you've got it! You see that? ( shows badge) It says "United States Marshal." ( gestures to Stilwell) Take a good look at him, Ike, because that's how you're gonna end up! The Cowboys are finished, you understand me? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur! Run! Tell all the other curs the law's coming! You tell 'em I'm coming and Hell's coming with me, you hear? Hell's coming with me! But a man lost his life and I took it! You don't know how that feels, and believe me boy, you don't ever want to know. In all that time workin' those cow towns, I was only ever mixed up in one shooting, just one.Skin that smokewagon and see what happens. ![]() Now for the first time I know exactly what I want.
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