List of Old West gunfights
This is a list of Old West gunfights . Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history; many were retold and embellished by dime novels and magazines like Harper's Weekly Arizona , California , New Mexico , Kansas , Oklahoma , and Texas . Some like the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral were the outcome of long-simmering feuds and rivalries but most were the result of a confrontation between outlaws and law enforcement.
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Bellevue War , April 1, 1840, Bellevue, Iowa Territory Broderick–Terry duel , September 13, 1859, San Francisco, California Wild Bill Hickok–Davis Tutt shootout , July 21, 1865, Springfield, Missouri Gunfight at Hide Park , August 19, 1871, Newton, Kansas Goingsnake massacre , April 15, 1872, Tahlequah, Indian Territory Lampasas Gunfight , June 7, 1877, Lampasas, Texas Battle of Blazer's Mill , April 4, 1878, Mescalero, New Mexico Territory Battle of Lincoln , July 15–19, 1878, Lincoln, New Mexico Territory Long Branch Saloon Gunfight , April 5, 1879, Dodge City, Kansas Variety Hall Shootout , January 22, 1880, Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory Mussel Slough Tragedy , May 11, 1880, Hanford, California Luke Short-Charlie Storms Gunfight , February 25, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona Territory Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight , April 14, 1881, El Paso, Texas Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , October 26, 1881, Tombstone, Arizona Territory Trinidad Gunfight , April 16, 1882, Trinidad, Colorado Vaudeville Theater Ambush , March 11, 1884, San Antonio, Texas Hunnewell, Kansas Gunfight , August 21, 1884, Hunnewell, Kansas Frisco shootout , December 1, 1884, Reserve, New Mexico Territory Tascosa Gunfight , March 21, 1886, Tascosa, Texas Luke Short-Jim Courtright Gunfight , February 8, 1887, Fort Worth, Texas Tewksbury's Ranch shootout , September 1887, Pleasant Valley, Arizona Territory Owens-Blevins Shootout , September 1887, Holbrook, Arizona Territory Tunnel Saloon Gabriel-Phy shootout , May 31, 1888, Florence, Arizona Territory Battle of Cimarron , January 12, 1889, Cimarron, Kansas Wham Paymaster robbery , May 11, 1889, near Fort Thomas, Arizona Territory Battle of Coffeyville , October 5, 1892, Coffeyville, Kansas Battle of Stone Corral , June 11–12, 1893, Visalia, California Battle of Tres Jacales , June 30, 1893, Tres Jacales, Chihuahua Battle of Ingalls , September 1, 1893, Ingalls, Indian Territory Gunfight at Morenci , December 18, 1895, Morenci, Arizona Territory Skeleton Canyon shootout , August 12, 1896, Nogales, Arizona Territory Blackwell gunfight , December 4, 1896, Blackwell, Indian Territory Shootout on Juneau Wharf , July 8, 1898, Skagway, District of Alaska Hot Springs Gunfight , March 16, 1899, Hot Springs, Arkansas Columbus shootout , March 16, 1899, Columbus, Texas Shootout at Wilson Ranch , April 7, 1899, Pearce, Arizona Territory Fairbank train robbery , February 15, 1900, Fairbank, Arizona Territory Moab Shootout , May 26, 1900, Moab, Utah Battleground Gunfight , October 8, 1901, Fort Apache Indian Reservation , Arizona Territory Gunfight at Spokogee , September 22, 1902, Dustin, Indian Territory Canyon Diablo Shootout , April 8, 1905, Canyon Diablo, Arizona Territory Shootout in Benson , February 27, 1907, Benson, Arizona Territory Naco Gunfight , April 5, 1908, Naco, Sonora Shootout at Sonoratown , May 15, 1911, near Ray, Arizona Territory Gleeson Gunfight , March 5, 1917, Gleeson, Arizona Power's Cabin Shootout , February 10, 1918, Galiuro Mountains , Arizona
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