There were “dime novels” written about Wyatt Earp, as there had been about Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, and several other frontiersmen, but they ran their course and were mostly fabrications anyway.
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However, the book publishing and movie industries got involved. Though the Gunfight at the OK Corral involved nine men and there were three fatalities-four, if you count Morgan’s murder less than six months later by Clanton allies-it may have been little more than a footnote in late 19th century American history. On the other side, Billy Clanton and the McLaurys were killed. When the firing ended, on the lawman side only Wyatt had not been hit by a bullet.
In it, Wyatt and his brothers Virgil and Morgan and his close friend Doc Holliday squared off against Ike and Billy Clanton, Billy Claiborne, and Tom and Frank McLaury. But the shootout on Octoin Tombstone Arizona remains the epic gunfight of the American West. The first recorded gunfight on the American frontier when men faced off and drew on each other took place on Jwhen James Butler Hickok coolly killed Davis Tutt in the town square of Independence, Missouri. The obvious and yet most accurate answer is the Gunfight at the O.K. Why is it so many years later that when one is asked to name a Wild West lawman, almost every time the answer still is Wyatt Earp?
When he finally did leave, the last thought in Wyatt’s mind was becoming a lawman. Though wanting to follow the example of three older brothers, Wyatt was unable to join the Union Army during the Civil War-he was too young, and he was needed on the family farm. That event took place in Illinois in 1848, with Wyatt being the sixth of ten children Nicholas Earp had with his first and second wives, Abigail and Virginia. For those of you keeping track of the ages of iconic heroes of the American West, which can be a delightful distraction these days, March marked the 170th anniversary of the birth of Wyatt Earp.
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