Wyatt earp biography and photos
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Wyatt earp biography and photos
Wyatt Earp
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Who Was Wyatt Earp?
One of the icons of the American West, Wyatt Earp worked for the law and helped tame the wild cowboy culture that pervaded the frontier.
In Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt got into a feud with a local rancher that resulted in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, perhaps the most famous gunfight in American history.
Early Years
One of the most celebrated legends of the American West, Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, , in Monmouth, Illinois, the third of Nicholas and Virginia Ann Earp's five sons.
A restless nature shaped Nicholas Earp, a hard-edged father and a drinker, who moved his family frequently in the unsettled American West in hopes of striking it rich.
The Civil War broke out when Earp was Desperate to leave the family farm in Iowa and find adventure, Earp tried several times to join his two older brothers, Virgil and James, in the Union army.
But each time, the runaway Earp was caught before he ever reached the battlefield, and