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CLANTON, NEWMAN HAYNES ("Old Man Clanton"), Tombstone, Arizona outlaw . Endorsement signed ("N H Clanton"), Safford, Arizona, 16 July 1878. 1 page, oblong 4to, signed in center of verso of the handwritten sight draft which bears a Tucson bank handstamp. VERY RARE. THE PATRIARCH OF THE TOMBSTONE CLAN WHICH TANGLED WITH THE EARPS AND "DOC" HOLLIDAY AT THE O.K. CORRAL "Old Man Clanton," of the celebrated clan of outlaws, endorses a sight draft of George Cottreall which instructs a banker, B.M. Jacobs, to "Pay the bearer P[hineas] F. Clanton [one of Newman Clanton's sons] the sum of $319.46...in cash for freight on lumber." Newman Clanton signs the verso. An extremely rare Western autograph. Clanton, his five sons and their gang followers dominated the infamous town of Tombstone, Arizona, and held sway over large portions of the surrounding territory. Based on their ranch some 14 miles south of Tombstone, Clanton and his boys raised and rustled cattle, farmed and on occasion murdered uncooperative ranchers. Just three months after this banker's draft (on 26 October 1881), Clanton's sons Billy and Ike and two other gang members died in the celebrated shoot-out at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone with Marshall Virgil Earp, Morgan and Wyatt Earp and John ("Doc") Holliday. In 1882, after Old Man Clanton and the survivors in the gang ambushed a muletrain, killing 19 muleteers, Clanton himself and six gang members were ambushed and killed, in retailiation, by Mexican vacqueros.