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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp Biography


Lawman and gunfighter, is one of the heroic figures of the American West.

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  • The fourth of seven children, Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois on March 19th, 1848. By his late 20's he had been a wagoner, stagecoach driver, buffalo hunter and peace officer throughout the west and had also won himself the reputation as a gambler and a gunfighter.

    On October 26, 1881 he took part in the famous shoot-out near the OK Corral in an empty lot between C.S.

    Fly's Photography Studio and the Harwood House in the city of Tombstone, Arizona Territory. The real OK Corral was on Allen Street and none of them ever made it that far. Wyatt Earp and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, along with Wyatt's close friend "Doc Holliday" (Dr.

    John Henry Holliday), acting in the name of the law, met in a gun battle with five men, members and associates of the Clanton family, whom the Earps had labeled as outlaws. The Clantons were members of a faction