Harris Clayton Claibourne (1839-) was an American journalist who worked for the Republican newspaper The Tombstone Epitaph in Tombstone, Arizona during the 1880s. In July 1881, Curly Bill Brocius came to Claibourne and requested that he write an article about how the town of Galeyville received nothing but tax receipts while Tombstone received sidewalks and lamps; however, Claibourne deduced that Brocius had visited him in order to have an alibi at the same time as the second of the Skeleton Canyon massacres. In March 1884, Claibourne decided to mount a journalistic campaign against the card sharps, fortune seekers, and guns-for-hire who inundated Tombstone due to the town's wealth and silver, but his revelation of the gambler and duellist Raoul de Morency's murderous past led to De Morency challenging him to a duel, and Claibourne accepting, with his friend, Sheriff Clay Hollister, serving as his second. Even after De Morency demonstrated his skill with shooting when the two practiced with the guns before their duel, Claibourne refused to print a retraction or apologize to De Morency.
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