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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Johnny_BehanJohnny Behan - Wikipedia

    Johnny Behan. John Harris Behan (October 24, 1844 – June 7, 1912) was an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as Sheriff of Cochise County in the Arizona Territory, during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and was known for his opposition to the Earps. Behan was sheriff of Yavapai County from 1871 to 1873.

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  3. www.legendsofamerica.com › law-johnbehanJohn Harris Behan – 1st Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona

    Sheriff Johnny Behan. John Harris Behan was a lawman and politician who served as Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, during the gunfight at the O.K. Corra l and was known for his opposition to the Earps. Hailing from Westport (now Kansas City), Missouri, Behan made his way to California as a young man, working as a freighter and a miner.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Gunfight_at_the_OGunfight at the O.K. Corral - Wikipedia

    Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, a friend of the Cowboys, later testified that he woke up about 1:30 p.m. after the late-night card game, and went to get a shave at a barbershop. That is where he first learned that the Cowboys were armed. Behan stated he quickly finished his shave and went to locate the Cowboys.

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  6. truewestmagazine.com › article › behans-liesBehan’s Lies - True West Magazine

    Illustration by Bob Boze Bell. One humiliation followed another for popular sheriff Johnny Behan on that fateful October afternoon. He stepped into the middle of a tense situation to prevent a gunfight, only to see the bullets fly around him and three of his friendly constituents shot to death.

  7. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › historyWhat really happened at the gunfight at the O.K. Corral?

    Wyatt Earp developed a professional rivalry with a fellow politician, Johnny Behan. Ten months before the shoot-out, Behan and Earp had both run for sheriff in Cochise County. Partway into the ...

  8. truewestmagazine.com › article › was-cochise-countyWas Cochise County Sheriff John Behan a Crook?

    Behan was certainly a glad-handing, backslapping, joke-telling politician in Arizona Territory. But charges of corruption didn’t come up until around 1880, after he moved to Cochise County. He became sheriff in 1881, eight months prior to Tombstone’s famous shoot-out behind the O.K. Corral.

  9. truewestmagazine.com › article › the-125thThe 125th Anniversary of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

    If the McLaurys and Clantons had heeded Sheriff Johnny Behan’s request, October 26, 1881, would have been just another ordinary day in Tombstone, Arizona. But the boys demurred, and the Earps and Doc Holliday brushed past the sheriff, with Wyatt allegedly uttering these famous words: “You sons of bitches, you have been looking for a fight ...

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