On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, eight men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history; 30 bullets were exchanged in 30 seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne against the Tombstone marshal, Virgil Earp, and the suddenly deputized Wyatt and Morgan Earp and shotgun-toting Doc Holliday. Here the author of Wild Bill and Dodge City peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone, and tells the tale of the vendetta ride when Holliday and the Earps went vigilante to bring the desperadoes to justice.