"Wyatt Earp at eighty"

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, Marshall

Born: March 19, 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois
Died: January 13, 1929 in Los Angeles, California

He is most known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral along with Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp. When his older brother Virgil Earp became city marshal of Tombstone. He recruited Wyatt Earp and Morgan Earp as "special deputy policemen".In 1880 the Earp brothers came into conflict with two families, the Clantons and the McLaurys which ended up with the famous shoot-out at the O.K. Corral on 26 October 1881 The gun fight lasted 30 seconds and resulted in the deaths of the McLaury's and Billy Clanton and the woundings of Virgil and Morgan Earp.

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