Wyatt Earp
Sheriff, Deceased Person
1848 – 1929
Who was Wyatt Earp?
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was a gambler, Pima County Deputy Sheriff, and Deputy Town Marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, and took part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cowboys. To Wyatt's displeasure, the 30-second gunfight defined the rest of his life. He is often regarded as the central figure in the shootout in Tombstone, although his brother Virgil was Tombstone City Marshal and Deputy U.S. Marshal that day, and had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, and marshal and in combat.
Earp was at different times in his life a city policeman, county sheriff, a teamster, buffalo hunter, bouncer, saloon-keeper, gambler, bouncer, brothel owner, pimp, miner, and a boxing referee. Earp spent his early life in Iowa. His first wife Urilla Sutherland Earp died while pregnant less than a year after they married. Within the next two years he was arrested, sued twice, escaped from jail, then was arrested three more times for "keeping and being found in a house of ill-fame". He landed in the cattle boomtown of Wichita, Kansas where he became a deputy city marshal for one year and developed a solid reputation as a lawman. In 1876 he followed his brother James to Dodge City, Kansas where he became an assistant city marshal. In winter 1878, he went to Texas to gamble where he met John Henry "Doc" Holliday whom Earp credited with saving his life.
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- Born
- Mar 19, 1848
Monmouth - Also known as
- Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Josephine Earp
(1892 - 1929/01/13) - Urilla Sutherland
(1870/01/10 - 1871) - Mattie Blaylock
(1878 - 1882)
- Josephine Earp
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Monmouth
- Died
- Jan 13, 1929
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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