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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone.Earp was involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys.
Wyatt Earp's fame and reputation has varied through the years. While alive, he had many admirers and detractors. Among his peers near the time of his death, Wyatt Earp was respected. His deputy Jimmy Cairns described Earp's work as a police officer in Wichita, Kansas. "Wyatt Earp was a wonderful officer.
In 1884, after leaving Tombstone, Wyatt and his wife Josie, Warren, James and Bessie Earp went to Eagle City, Idaho, another boom town. [8] Wyatt was looking for gold in the Murray-Eagle mining district. They opened a saloon called The White Elephant in a circus tent. An advertisement in a local newspaper suggested gentlemen "come and see the ...
The real Wyatt Earp was elected town constable of Lamar, Missouri, in 1870, [9] and became a Wichita, Kansas policeman in 1873. [9] He was appointed as an assistant marshal in Dodge City around May 1876, spent the winter of 1876–77 in Deadwood , Dakota Territory , [ 11 ] : 31 and rejoined the Dodge City police force as an assistant marshal in ...
White City was founded in 1871 by a colony from Chicago. [5] It was named for F.C. White, superintendent of the Neosho division of the M-K-T Railroad , which was built on the land in 1868, prior to the existence of the community. [ 6 ]
Wyatt had held jobs as either a guard or police officer in the cattle-drive towns of Wichita and Dodge City, Kansas. [21] James, Virgil, and Wyatt Earp, together with their wives, arrived in Tombstone on December 1, 1879, during the early period of rapid growth associated with mining, when there were only a few hundred residents. [22]
A homicide investigation is underway after one person died overnight Tuesday in Kansas City, according to police. Officers responded just after midnight to a Discount Smokes & Liquor store at 4305 ...
[2] [3] Over the course of its history it has seen such famous patrons as Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, Doc Holliday (in the 1870s before they headed south to Tombstone), and Steve McQueen. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] During his time in Prescott before leaving for Tombstone, Wyatt Earp was involved in several gunfights behind the saloon, killing two men.