11 Facts About Billy Clanton

1.

William Harrison Clanton was an outlaw Cowboy in Cochise County, Arizona Territory.

2.

Billy Clanton was a member of group of loosely organized outlaws who had ongoing conflicts with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp.

3.

Billy Clanton's father worked at times as a day laborer, a gold miner, a farmer, and by the late 1870s, a cattleman in Arizona Territory.

4.

Billy Clanton moved with his family in 1873 to Pima County, Arizona Territory and then to Charleston.

5.

Billy Clanton heard several times that the Clantons had his horse.

6.

Billy Clanton stabled his horse at another corral and telegraphed James Earp in Tombstone to send up ownership papers for the horse to Charleston.

7.

Johnny Ringo later said that Old Man Clanton and his sons Ike and Billy were among the murderers.

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8.

Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne ran away in the opening moments.

9.

Billy Clanton emptied his gun during the fight and was killed along with both McLaurys.

10.

Billy Clanton wrote in a letter during the preliminary hearing that the two brothers and Billy Clanton were preparing to come to Fort Worth, Texas to visit after selling their cattle.

11.

On screen Billy Clanton has been portrayed by James Ferrara in Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die, John Ireland in My Darling Clementine, Dennis Hopper in Gunfight at the OK.