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American History Tellers
Wondery
4.7 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
After several months of anxiety, the tensions in Tombstone finally explode into violence as Ike Clanton and his friends provoke the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday into a deadly showdown.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. You're transported back in time, witnessing history unfold right before your eyes, without any modern day interruptions. |
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| 0:16.1 | Join Wondry Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts and experience American history like never before. |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine it's November 12, 1880, near Tombstone, Arizona. |
| 0:40.0 | You're a cowboy who usually spends his free time carousing and gambling. |
| 0:44.4 | But tonight, you and a friend are doing your part to fulfill an important civic duty |
| 0:48.6 | you're certifying an election. |
| 0:50.9 | Tombstone's County calls on citizen volunteers to help oversee voting. |
| 0:55.0 | So you're at your friend's house, which is serving as the local polling station. |
| 0:59.0 | You open a lockbox with the ballots inside and spill them out onto the table. |
| 1:03.0 | Then you divide the pile and both start counting. |
| 1:06.0 | The big race on the ballot is for City Marshal, Democrat Ben Sippy versus Republican incumbent Virgil Earp, |
| 1:12.3 | who was appointed to the seat just a few weeks prior. You favor Sippy, the Democrat, who's sympathetic |
| 1:17.5 | to cowboys like you. But after a few minutes, you reached the last ballot and realized you don't |
| 1:22.4 | like the results. What's the count for your pile? I'm at Virgil Earp 32 and Ben Sippy 28. |
| 1:28.2 | "'Yeah, I got Virgil ahead 36 to 22. "'You sure you didn't screw up the count? "'What is there to screw up? I went to school. I know how to count. "'Well, let's just count again and make sure. "'You both recount your piles and you get the same numbers. "'You groan. Ah, this is a disaster. We can't have Virgil Earp serve a full term as Marshall. |
| 1:48.7 | I'm not too worried. And why not? All of those Earp brothers are the same. They use their |
| 1:53.3 | badges to harass us. Well, you know, we haven't counted all the balance yet. What do you mean |
| 1:58.4 | by that? Why are you grinning? Your friend reaches into his coat |
| 2:01.8 | pocket and thump some papers on the table. You pick one off the top. Are these ballots? Yep. |
| 2:08.0 | Already filled in, straight-ticket Democrat. And where'd they come from? Curly Bill sent them over, |
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