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Trading on Earp's name, the Dexter was a success. ... Ford's son Patrick later wrote, "My dad was real friendly with Wyatt Earp, and as a little boy I remember him."
Jack "Turkey Creek" Johnson, whose real name according to Wyatt Earp was John William Blount, was a native of Missouri who was raised in the lead mining area near Neosho. Blount was forced to flee Missouri in 1877 after he and his brother were involved in a violent street battle.
The gunfight was not widely known until two years after Wyatt Earp's death, when Stuart Lake published his 1931 Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. [5] The book was the basis for the 1939 film Frontier Marshal , with Randolph Scott and Cesar Romero, the 1946 film My Darling Clementine , directed by John Ford , [ 5 ] and the 1957 film Gunfight at the ...
Josephine Sarah "Sadie" Earp (née Marcus; 1861 – December 19, 1944) [1] was the common-law wife of Wyatt Earp, a famed Old West lawman and gambler.She met Wyatt in 1881 in the frontier boom town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory, when she was living with Johnny Behan, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona.
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 ...
Deputies Bat Masterson (standing) and Wyatt Earp in Dodge City, 1876. The scroll on Earp's chest is a cloth pin-on badge. Masterson's first gunfight took place on January 24, 1876, in Sweetwater, Texas (later Mobeetie in Wheeler County). He was attacked by a soldier, Corporal Melvin A. King (real name Anthony Cook) allegedly because he was with ...
Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905) was an American lawman. He was both deputy U.S. Marshal and City Marshal of Tombstone, Arizona, when he led his younger brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday, in a confrontation with outlaw Cowboys at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881.
The O.K. Corral hearing and aftermath was the direct result of the 30-second Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. During that confrontation, Deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone Town Marshal Virgil Earp, Assistant Town Marshal Morgan Earp, and temporary deputy marshals Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday shot and killed Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury.