NEWMAN HAYNES "OLD MAN" CLANTON, PRIVATE, TEXAS HOME GUARD. PATRIARCH OF THE CLANTON FAMILY, WHO FOUGHT THE EARPS AT THE OK CORRAL (THE EARPS WERE YANKS, AND ONE EARP BROTHER WAS A UNION VETERAN).   

NEWMAN CLANTON SETTLED IN ARIZONA IN 1873, ATTEMPTING WITHOUT SUCCESS TO FORM A NEW TOWN CALLED "CLANTONVILLE" NEAR CAMP GOODWIN IN THE GILA VALLEY.  AFTER PROVING UNABLE TO ATTRACT SETTLERS TO THE NEW TOWN, CLANTON MOVED IN 1877 TO THE SAN PEDRO VALLEY, BUILDING A RANCH NEAR LEWIS SPRINGS (ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLESTON). WHEN THE SILVER BOOM CAME TO THE NEARBY TOWN OF TOMBSTONE, LEADING TO TREMENDOUS POPULATION GROWTH, CLANTON GREW RICH SUPPLYING MEAT AND CATTLE THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY. 

HE CREATED THE BIGGEST CATTLE EMPIRE IN ARIZONA TERRITORY, AND FOUND HIMSELF INVOLVED IN CONTROVERSY AS A RESULT...CLANTON CLAIMED HIS CATTLE WERE LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRED, BUT HE WAS ACCUSED OF ALSO RUSTLING CATTLE FROM MEXICO WHEN NECESSARY TO FILL HIS CUSTOMER’S DEMANDS FOR MEAT.  AS A RESULT OF THESE QUESTIONABLE ACTIVITIES, CLANTON, HIS SONS, AND HIS RANCH HANDS BECAME KNOWN COLLECTIVELY AS "THE CLANTON GANG," BY WHICH NAME THEY HAVE GONE DOWN IN WESTERN HISTORY AND FOLKLORE.