American Folk Figure. He was a reluctant combatant in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. When he learned about the intentions of his older brother, Ike, to foster a confrontation with city lawmen, he attempted to calm him, and persuade him to leave town. Unsuccessful, he would stay and participate in the gunfight Even after witnessing Ike fleeing from the scene after starting the altercation. Billy was mortally wounded, and taken to a nearby house where he received some medical treatment before passing away. The participants and the manner the shoot out unfolded has lead the event into the forefront of American western folklore. All of the members involved became legendary due to the enormous publicity generated by books, newspapers and periodicals printing stories, most mere fiction. Hollywood movie makers cranked out numerous films with dubious and embellished scenes; all featuring on the side of law, the three Earp brothers, Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan with Doc Holliday. The opposition was the Clantons, Billy and Ike, the McLaury brothers Tom and Frank and Billy Claiborne. Tom and Frank McLaury were killed as was Billy Clanton. They were embalmed and placed on display in the window of a Tombstone hardware store in an attempt to generate sympathy and initiate murder and malfeasance charges against the Earps. Both the Clanton and McLaury families were cattle ranchers and well known in the area. The funeral for the threesome would be a major event in town and their interment in the local cemetery was attended by hundreds of mourners. The McLaury brothers were placed in a single grave with Billy nearby. Billy was the youngest of three Clanton brothers born into a family of six in Hamilton County, Texas during the civil war, to Newman Hayes and Mariah Kelso Clanton. At age three, his family began a relatively nomadic existence with a move to Fort Bowie in the Arizona Territory and then a move to Ventura, California. At age nine, the family was living in Port Hueneme, California then they moved back to Arizona with a plan of starting his a farming community in the Gila Valley. He would call the site Clantonville and actively farm while trying to entice others to settle here. This venture would end up in failure with the family splitting and the oldest son would move back to California while those remaining would move down the San Pedro River to Lewis Spring near Charleston. The site would become known as the Clanton Ranch and Billy, now fifteen, would help his father construct a large adobe house. Wyatt Earp apprehended Billy at age eighteen, riding a stolen horse in Charleston. The incident was resolved peacefully with the animal retrieved by his owner.