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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Earp was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys.
May 6, 2024 · Wyatt Earp, legendary frontiersman of the American West who was perhaps best known for his involvement in the gunfight with an outlaw gang at the O.K. Corral (1881). He was established as a legend in part by a 1931 biography with which he assisted, though many of the claims were exaggerated or untrue.
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- Wyatt Earp was a legendary frontiersman of the American West. He was an itinerant saloonkeeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, and confidence man, bu...
- In 1881 Wyatt Earp and his brothers clashed with a local outlaw gang led by Ike Clanton. The conflict resulted in a famous gunfight at the O.K. Cor...
- Wyatt Earp died on January 13th, 1929, in Los Angeles, California.
- Wyatt Earp has been the subject of movies and books that furthered his legendary status, though these became less frequent in the 21st century. Not...
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- After a Midwestern childhood, he headed to California by wagon train as a teen. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, on March 19, 1848, and named for his father’s commander in the Mexican-American War.
- He was a lawman in the 'Wickedest Little City in the West.' By 1870, Earp got his first job in law enforcement, as town constable in Lamar, Missouri, where his family had relocated.
- Earp met Doc Holliday on the gambling circuit. Earp met fellow gambler John Henry “Doc” Holliday in Texas in 1878. Holliday, a Georgia native born in 1851, had studied dentistry in Philadelphia.
- He was arrested for murder after the gunfight at OK Corral. Earp arrived in the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1879, and eventually found periodic work as a law officer.
Aug 9, 2017 · In Unforgiven, when Eastwood’s retired bandit William Munny is hired to kill two men who cut up a prostitute’s face, their capital punishment is carried out in entirely joyless fashion. At the same time, David Webb Peoples’ script is saturated with unnerving reminders of Munny’s own horrific, booze-fuelled track record.
Jul 7, 2011 · On July 7 in 1900, Warren Earp — the youngest of the Earp brothers — was killed in a saloon in Wilcox, Arizona. Warren’s most famous brother, Wyatt Earp, lived until 1929. On the day he died, Warren was drinking and confronting other customers when John Boyett killed him in a gunfight.
Nov 6, 2009 · Wyatt Earp, a famous figure from the American West, is best remembered for his participation in a deadly gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
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Perhaps the most dangerous man deputized by Wyatt Earp was Jack Johnson. Earp biographer Stuart Lake referred to him as “Turkey Creek Jack” Johnson, but his real name, according to Wyatt, was John William Blount. He was 34 in 1881 and had a unique reason for joining the posse.
