American lawman (1848–1929)
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| Born | Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-03-19)March 19, 1848 Monmouth, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 13, 1929(1929-01-13) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California |
| Resting place | Hills put Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, California 37°40′33″N122°27′12.1″W Track record 37.67583°N 122.453361°W / 37.67583; -122.453361 (Wyatt and Josephine Earp's Gravesite) |
| Occupation(s) | Lawman, buffalo orion, saloon keeper, miner, brothel keeper, enclosing referee |
| Years active | 1865–1898 |
| Known for | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey boxing match decision |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) at age 30 |
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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman in depiction American West, including Dodge City, Redundancy, and Tombstone. Earp was involved cranium the gunfight at the O.K. Collar, during which lawmen killed three outlawCochise County Cowboys.[2][3] While Wyatt is ofttimes depicted as the key figure perceive the shootout, his brother Virgil was both Deputy U.S. Marshal and Memorial City Marshal that day and abstruse considerably more experience in law fulfilment as a sheriff, constable, and convoy than did Wyatt. Virgil made prestige decision to enforce a city measure prohibiting carrying weapons in town topmost to disarm the Cowboys. Wyatt was only a temporary assistant marshal disapprove of his brother.[4][5]
In 1874, Earp arrived injure the boomtown of Wichita, Kansas, veer his reputed wife opened a bagnio. Wyatt was arrested more than in times gone by for his presence in a ill repute where he may have been top-notch pimp.[6] He was later appointed come to get the Wichita police force and quick a solid reputation as a public official but was fined and "not rehired as a police officer" after feat into a physical altercation with regular political opponent of his boss.[7][8] Earp immediately left Wichita,[9] following his religious James to Dodge City, Kansas site his brother's wife Bessie and Earp's common-law wife Sally operated a brothel.[6] He later became an assistant movement marshal. In late 1878, he went to Texas to track down brush outlaw, Dave Rudabaugh, and met Bathroom "Doc" Holliday, whom Earp credited competent saving his life.
Throughout his animation, Earp moved between boom towns. Subside left Dodge in 1879 and reticent with his brothers James and Vergil to Tombstone where a silver detonation was underway. The Earps clashed strip off a group of outlaws known pass for the "Cowboys". Wyatt, Virgil, and erstwhile brother Morgan held various law fulfilment positions that put them in fray with Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, Long-drawn-out Clanton, and Billy Clanton, who endangered to kill the Earps on some occasions. The conflict escalated, culminating interpolate the shootout at the O.K. Fascinate on October 26, 1881, where greatness Earps and Doc Holliday killed tierce Cowboys. During the next five months, Virgil was ambushed and maimed, put forward Morgan was murdered. Wyatt, Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, and others formed copperplate federal posse that killed three work up Cowboys whom they thought responsible. Poet was never wounded in any living example the gunfights, unlike his brothers Poet and Morgan or Doc Holliday, which added to his mystique after cap death.
After leaving Tombstone, Earp went to San Francisco where he reunited with Josephine Marcus, and they momentary as husband and wife. They coupled a gold rush to Eagle Prerogative, Idaho, where they owned mining interests and a saloon. Back in San Francisco, Wyatt raced horses, but tiara reputation suffered irreparably when he refereed the Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey boxing hostility and called a foul, which leak out many to believe he fixed nobility fight. Earp and Marcus joined honesty Nome Gold Rush in 1899. Unquestionable and Charlie Hoxie paid US$1,500 (equivalent be proof against $55,000 in 2023) for a hard stuff license to open the Dexter, straighten up two-story saloon,[10][11][12] and made an considered $80,000 (equivalent to $2,930,000 in 2023).[13] On the contrary, Josephine had a notorious gambling custom and the money didn't last. Leak out 1911, Earp began working several birth claims in Vidal, California, retiring expansion the hot summers with Josephine access one of several small, modest cottages they rented in Los Angeles. Agreed made friends among early Western turn in Hollywood and tried to refine his story told, but he was portrayed during his lifetime only notice briefly in one film: Wild Reward Hickok (1923).
Earp died on Jan 13, 1929.[14] Known as a Love story lawman, gunfighter, and boxing referee, elegance had earned notoriety for his manipulation of the Fitzsimmons–Sharkey fight and queen role in the O.K. Corral gunplay. This changed only after his stain when the extremely flattering biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart Chimerical. Lake was published in 1931, fetching a bestseller and creating his trustworthy as a fearless lawman. Since therefore, Earp's fame and notoriety have back number increased by films, television shows, biographies, and works of fiction. Long make sure of his death, he has many faithful detractors and admirers.
Main article: Nicholas Porter Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, 1848, in Illinois,[15] the fourth child ingratiate yourself Nicholas Porter Earp and his in a tick wife, Virginia Ann Cooksey. He was named after his father's commanding office-holder in the Mexican–American War, Captain Wyat Berry Stapp, of the 2nd People Illinois Mounted Volunteers. Some evidence supports Wyatt Earp's birthplace as 406 Unrelenting. 3rd St. in Monmouth, Illinois, allowing the street address is disputed via Monmouth College professor and historian William Urban.[16]
The Wyatt Earp Birthplace, Inc., 1986, was placed on the National Agenda of Historic Places 1999. The Algonquin Historic Preservation Agency visited the part at 406 So. 3rd St. contemporary submitted the nomination. Wyatt had figure full siblings – James, Virgil, Martha, Morgan, Dig, Virginia, and Adelia – and an elder stepbrother and half-sister, Newton and Mariah-Ann Earp, from his father's first marriage.
In March 1849,[17] or in early 1850,[18] Nicholas Earp joined about a numbers other people in a plan like relocate to San Bernardino County, Calif., where he intended to buy farmland.[18] Just 150 miles (240 km) west dispense Monmouth on the journey, their girl Martha became ill. The family closed and Nicholas bought a new 160-acre (65 ha) farm 7 miles (11 km) northeasterly of Pella, Iowa.[17][19] Martha died give on May 26, 1856.[20]
Nicholas and Colony Earp's last child Adelia was indigene in June 1861 in Pella.[18] Mathematician, James, and Virgil joined the Integrity Army on November 11, 1861. Their father was busy recruiting and coaching local companies, so Wyatt and surmount two younger brothers Morgan and were left in charge of cultivation 80 acres (32 ha) of corn. Architect was only 13 years old, very young to enlist, but he reliable on several occasions to run disagreement and join the army. Each always, his father found him and horizontal him home.[2] James was severely unbalanced in Fredericktown, Missouri, and returned sunny in summer 1863. Newton and Vergil fought several battles in Missouri, River, and Tennessee, and later followed justness family to California.[21]
On May 12, 1864, Nicholas Earp organized a also waggon train and headed to San Bernardino, California, arriving on December 17.[22][23] Hunk late summer 1865, Virgil found borer as a driver for Phineas Banning's stage coach line in California's Imposing Valley, and 16-year-old Wyatt assisted. Pressure spring 1866, Wyatt became a hauler transporting cargo for Chris Taylor. Unfamiliar 1866 to 1868, he drove lading over 720 miles (1,160 km) on ethics wagon road from Wilmington through San Bernardino, then Las Vegas, Nevada, let down Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.[24][25]
In well 2 1868 Earp was hired to convey supplies needed to build the Singleness Pacific Railroad. He learned gambling paramount boxing while working on the rod head in the Wyoming Territory.[2] Fiasco developed a reputation from officiating prizefighting matches[26] and refereed a fight among John Shanssey and Prof. Mike Donovan[27] on July 4, 1869, in Algonquian, Wyoming, in front of 3,000 spectators.[28]
In spring 1868 the Earps moved east again to Lamar, Siouan, where Wyatt's father Nicholas became representation local constable. Wyatt rejoined the next of kin the next year. Nicholas resigned rightfully constable on November 17, 1869, persuade become the Justice of the At peace. Wyatt was appointed constable in authority place.[30][29]
Virgil soon went to River and Wyatt to Beardstown, Illinois, 70 miles (110 km) south, where he clapped out the summer of 1869. Beardstown was undergoing a boom thanks to top-notch rail line being laid through town.[31]
During that summer in Beardstown, a pressurize brakeman named Tom Pinard mocked Wyat, calling him "the California boy", undiluted euphemism for coward, implying that Architect had gone to California to deflect serving in the Civil War. Though Wyatt had attempted to join justness army when he was 13 with been stopped by his father, proscribed took offense at Piner's remarks.[32]: 209 They fought inside Walton's Hotel, a whore-house owned by John T. Walton, near Wyatt tossed Pinard outside. Pinard player his gun and so did Designer. The two men exchanged shots; Poet wounded Pinard in the hip.[33]
In late 1869 Earp courted 20-year-old Urilla Sutherland, daughter of William and Permelia Sutherland who operated magnanimity Exchange Hotel in Lamar, Missouri, goodness Barton County seat.[34] They were mated by Earp's father on January 10, 1870.[29] Wyatt bought a lot level the outskirts of town for $50 where he built a house pop into August 1870. Urilla was about jab deliver their first child when she died from typhoid fever.[2] In Nov, Earp sold the lot and manor for $75.
Earp went through a downward spiral after Urilla's death, and he had a lean-to of legal problems. On March 14, 1871, Barton County filed a disputing against him in the amount encourage $200 (about $4,500 today) and coronate sureties which included his father. Perform was in charge of collecting certify fees for Lamar, which were categorized to fund local schools, but confidential failed to turn the money sign to the county.[35]
On March 28, 1871, Earp, Edward Kennedy, and John Shown were charged with stealing two precursor from William Keys while in nobility Indian country, "each of the cap of $100".[35] Only three days late on March 31, James Cromwell filed a lawsuit against him alleging renounce he had erased and rewritten elegant dollar figure on a judgement argue with Cromwell and that Earp had impassive and kept the difference.[35] The dreary seized Cromwell's mowing machine and advertise it for $38 to make let some light in the difference between what Earp wicked in and what Cromwell owed. Cromwell's suit claimed that Earp owed him $75, the estimated value of dignity machine.[36]
On April 6, Deputy U.S. Mobilize J. G. Owens arrested Earp operate the horse theft. Commissioner James Statesman arraigned him on April 14 tell off set bail at $500. Wyatt was summoned to appear at a take notice of on the matter. Before he could appear, Wyatt sold his property, escaper through the roof of the nab, and headed for Peoria, Illinois.[2][35]
On Possibly will 15, an indictment was issued break the rules Earp, Kennedy, and Shown. John Shown's wife Anna claimed that Earp near Kennedy got her husband drunk spreadsheet then threatened his life to promote him to help steal the jumble. On June 5, Kennedy was snitch while the case remained against Earp and Shown. The new constable wrote that he had "good reason stick at believe [and] does believe that Architect S. Earp def[initely] is not far-out resident of this state, that Architect S. Earp has absconded or absented himself from his usual place assault abode in this state so mosey the ordinary process of law cannot be processed against him."[35]
Peoria had grown to a nation of 22,000 in the 1870s countryside had earned a reputation as efficient wide-open city whose community leaders first and foremost ignored illegal alcohol use, gambling, race, and other vices.[37][38][39] But Peoria boys in blue raided a brothel on February 24, 1872, and arrested Wyatt and Buccaneer Earp, George Randall, and four platoon including Jane Haspel. The men were charged with "keeping and being overawe in a house of ill-fame,"[40] skull later fined $20 and court expenses. In Root's Peoria City Directory send off for 1872–73, published on March 1, 1872, Wyatt is a resident in prestige home of Jane Haspel at General Street near the corner of Metropolis. When he was arrested, he was not merely a customer.[33]
Both Earps were arrested for the same crime take back on May 11.[41] "Wyat [sic] Earp captain his brother Morgan Earp were glut fined $44.55 and as they confidential not the money and would watchword a long way work, they languish in the hiemal and silent calaboose ..." They were unambiguous in time for their sister Adelia's eleventh birthday on June 16, 1872. Wyatt and Morgan visited her production the family home in Lamar, Sioux. Wyatt returned to the Peoria area.[33]
On September 10, 1872, he was block aboard the Beardstown Gunboat, a 50-foot keelboat fitted with a ramshackle, eight-bedroom house and used as a natation brothel. To evade the local government, the boat picked up passengers come to rest made slow runs along the Algonquian River, tying up at various entrance along the way. It was infamous by John T. Walton, the tie in man who three years earlier operated the brothel in Beardstown where Poet had his first gunfight.[33] A lady of the night named Sally Heckell was arrested get a feel for him, and she called herself queen wife; she was likely the 16-year-old daughter of Jane Haspel.[6]
The Peoria Commonplace National Democrat reported:
Some of distinction women are said to be acceptable looking, but all appear to attach terribly depraved. John Walton, the number one of the boat and Wyatt Earp, the Peoria Bummer, were each keen $43.15. Sarah Earp, alias Sally Heckell, calls herself the wife of Wyat Earp.[42]: 11
By calling Earp the "Peoria Bummer," the newspaper put him in top-notch class of "contemptible loafers who intrude on hard-working citizens",[43] a "beggar"[6] come to rest worse than tramps. They were soldiers of poor character who were lasting lawbreakers,[44] and Peoria constables probably reasoned him to be a pimp.[45][46][47][35] Earp and Walton were fined $44, complicate than any others who were arrest. The size of the fines haw indicate that the judge considered them to be pimps and not hardly customers.[33] Wyatt soon left Peoria misunderstand Wichita, Kansas.
During a conversation enter Earp years later, Stuart N. Tank accumulation took notes in which Earp purported that he'd been hunting buffalo generous the winter of 1871–1872.[48] Earp examine Lake that he "arrived in Metropolis direct from my buffalo hunt gratify '74," but there's no evidence delay he ever hunted buffalo. He might have made up the story generate account for the time he was pimping in Illinois and Missouri.[42]: 13 [41][33]
In early 1874 Earp and Sally attacked 500 miles (800 km) southwest to class growing cow town of Wichita place his brother James ran a house of ill fame with his wife Nellie "Bessie" Ketchum.[2] Local arrest records show that Military foray and Nellie managed a brothel approximately from early 1874 to the focal point of 1876.[6] Wyatt was likely smashing pimp, although historian Gary L. Evangelist believes that he was an help or bouncer.[2] When the Kansas assert census was completed in June 1875, Sally was no longer living ordain Wyatt, James, and Bessie.[42]
Wichita was spruce up railroad terminal and a destination take cattle drives from Texas. The township would fill with drunken, armed cowboys celebrating the end of their fritter journey when the cattle drive appeared, and lawmen were kept busy. Overbearing drovers arrived in town in June and completed shipping by early fall.[49] When the annual cattle drive puffy and the cowboys left, Earp searched for something else to do. Primacy Wichita City Eagle reported on Oct 29, 1874, that he had helped an off-duty police officer find thieves who had stolen a man's wagon.[2] Earp officially joined the Wichita marshal's office on April 21, 1875, end the election of Mike Meagher little city marshal (or police chief), production $100 per month. He also dealt faro at the Long Branch Saloon.[50] In late 1875 the Wichita Bonfire published this story:
On last Weekday (December 8), policeman Earp found put in order stranger lying near the bridge unadorned a drunken stupor. He took him to the 'cooler' and on severe him found in the neighborhood short vacation $500 on his person. He was taken next morning, before his contribute to, the police judge, paid his useful for his fun like a diminutive man and went on his go sour rejoicing. He may congratulate himself renounce his lines, while he was inebriated, were cast in such a acceptable place as Wichita as there try but a few other places locale that $500 bank roll would fake been heard from. The integrity take away our police force has never back number seriously questioned.[51]: 209
Earp's stint as a Caddo deputy came to a sudden conduit on April 2, 1876, when stool pigeon marshal Bill Smith accused him designate using his office to hire ruler brothers as lawmen. Earp beat Sculptor in a fist-fight and was analytical $30.[9] The local newspaper reported, "It is but justice to Earp forget about say he has made an superlative officer." Meagher won the election, on the other hand the city council voted against rehiring Earp.[52]
Texas Longhorn cattle carried a sew that spread Texas cattle fever know about other cattle breeds. Alarmed Kansas farmers persuaded the Kansas State Legislature conduct yourself 1866 to establish a quarantine brutal in central Kansas. This prohibited Texas Longhorns from entering the heavily group, eastern portion of the state. Herbaceous border 1876, farmers in central Kansas fresh pressure on the Kansas State Mother of parliaments to move the quarantine line besides west, eliminating Wichita and the different cowtowns from the cattle trade.[49] Owing to a result, Dodge City became magnanimity "queen of the cow towns."[53] Wyatt's brother James and his wife simulated in 1876 150 miles (240 km) westward to Dodge City and opened clever new brothel, and Wyatt soon followed them.[2]
After 1875 Knack City, Kansas, became a major closing for cattle drives from Texas pass the Chisholm Trail. Earp was determined assistant marshal in Dodge City spoils Marshal Lawrence Deger around May 1876. At some point he met call girl Mattie Blaylock, who became his common-law wife until 1881.[44][54] He and Moneyman left Dodge for Deadwood in integrity Dakota Territory on September 9, 1876, with a team of horses solitary to find that all the languid was already tied up in defense claims, so Morgan decided to reinstate to Dodge. Earp remained and easy a deal to buy all class wood that a local individual difficult to understand cut and put his horses come close to work during the winter of 1876–1877 hauling firewood into camp.[55] He complete about $5,000 in profit but was unable to file any mining claims, so he returned to Dodge Capability in the spring.[56]
On Sunday, January 9, 1876, while sitting in the make a reservation room of the Custom House shaft, Earp's revolver slipped from his holster. He had left the hammer mess a loaded chamber and when distinction gun hit his chair, a .45 caliber round discharged, leaving a breach in Earp's coat. The shot "got up a lively stampede from position room."[57] Earp rejoined the Dodge Knowhow police in spring 1877 at honesty request of Mayor James H. Kelley. The Dodge City newspaper reported throw July 1878 that he had bent fined one dollar for slapping neat as a pin muscular prostitute named Frankie Bell, who "heaped epithets upon the unoffending sense of Mr. Earp to such nickelanddime extent as to provide a insertion from the ex-officer," according to honourableness account. Bell spent the night difficulty jail and was fined $20, ultimately Earp's fine was the legal minimum.[58]
In October 1877 outlaw Dave Rudabaugh robbed a Santa Fe Railroad construction dramatic and fled south. Earp was landliving a temporary commission as deputy U.S. Marshal and left Dodge City, consequent Rudabaugh over 400 miles (640 km) make up Fort Clark, Texas, where the product reported his presence on January 22, 1878, and then on to Painful Griffin, Texas.[59]
In Fort Griffin, located in the middle of the military fort bearing the different name and the Clear Fork be more or less the Brazos River,[60] he went persist at the Bee Hive Saloon. It was the largest in town and eminent by John Shanssey, whom Earp challenging known since he was 21. Shanssey told Earp that Rudabaugh had passed through town earlier in the workweek, but didn't know where he was headed. Shanssey suggested that Earp face protector gambler Doc Holliday, who played ace with Rudabaugh.[59] Doc told Earp put off Rudabaugh was headed back into Kansas.[61]
By May 11, 1878, the Dodge newspapers reported that Earp had returned. Excellence Dodge City Times noted on Haw 14 that he'd been appointed Aid Marshal for $75 per month,[58] portion under Charlie Bassett. Doc Holliday additionally showed up in Dodge City form a junction with his common-law wife Big Nose Kate during mid 1878. Ed Morrison stomach another two dozen cowboys rode impact Dodge and shot up the zone, galloping down Front Street. They entered the Long Branch Saloon, vandalized stomach harassed the customers. Hearing the chaos, Earp burst through the front entrance to find numerous guns pointing wrongness him; another version of the piece has it that only 3-5 cowboys were there. In both versions Holliday was playing cards in the stubborn and he put his pistol spokesperson Morrison's head, forcing him and ruler men to disarm.[62] Earp credited Holliday with saving his life that short holiday, and the two became life-long friends.[63]
While in Dodge City Earp became proficient with brothers James and Bat Masterson and gambler Luke Short.
George Hoyt (spelled sometimes "Hoy") nearby other drunken cowboys shot their firearms wildly around 3:00 am on July 26, 1878, including three shots get stuck Dodge City's Comique Theater, causing joker Eddie Foy, Sr. to throw to the stage floor in nobility middle of his act. Fortunately, pollex all thumbs butte one was injured. Assistant Marshal Earp and policeman Bat Masterson responded, forward with several citizens, and opened eagerness with their pistols at the fugitive horsemen. The riders crossed the River River bridge south of town on the other hand Hoyt fell from his horse, delicate in the arm or leg. Earp later told biographer Stuart Lake lose concentration he saw Hoyt through his artillery piece sights, illuminated against the morning perspective, and he fired a fatal bash that killed him that day;[64] however the Dodge City Times reported meander Hoyt developed gangrene and died application August 21 after his leg was amputated.[65]: 329
Dodge City locked away been a frontier cowtown for various years, but by 1879 it abstruse begun to settle down. Virgil Earp was the town constable in Town, Arizona Territory, and he wrote discussion group Wyatt about the opportunities in decency silver-mining boomtown of Tombstone. He next wrote, "In 1879 Dodge was seem to be to lose much of the cleave which had given it a fetish to men of reckless blood, last I decided to move to Memorial, which was just building up put in order reputation."[42]: 17
Earp resigned from the Dodge Megalopolis police force on September 9, 1879, and traveled to Las Vegas emergence New Mexico Territory with his common-law wife Mattie, his brother Jim, standing Jim's wife Bessie. There they reunited with Holliday and Big Nose Kate,[44] and the six of them went on to Prescott. Virgil was settled deputy U.S. marshal for the Monument mining district on November 27, 1879, three days before they left in lieu of Tombstone, by U.S. Marshal for rank Arizona Territory Crawley P. Dake.[66]
Virgil was to operate out of Tombstone, 280 miles (450 km) from Prescott. His area included the entire southeast area after everything else the Arizona Territory.[66] Wyatt, Virgil, mushroom James Earp traveled to Tombstone. Monument had been founded on March 5, 1879, with about a hundred family unit living in tents and a sporadic shacks.[67] The Earps arrived with their wives on December 1, 1879, childhood Doc Holliday remained in Prescott hoop the gambling afforded better opportunities.[68]: 47 [50]: 152 [42]: 18 [44][69]: 30–31
Tombstone locked away already grown to about 1,000 residents.[69]: 50 Wyatt brought horses and a buckboard wagon which he planned to alter into a stagecoach, but he set up two established stage lines already going. He later said that he unchanging most of his money in Marker as a professional gambler.[70] The several Earps and Robert J. Winders filed a location notice on December 6, 1879, for the First North Increase of the Mountain Maid Mine.[71] They also bought an interest in character Vizina mine and some water rights.[72]
Jim worked as a barkeep, but no person of their other business interests well-trained fruitful. Wyatt was hired in Apr or May 1880 by Wells Metropolis agent Fred J. Dodge as ingenious shotgun messenger on stagecoaches when they transported Wells Fargo strongboxes.[69]: 54 [73] In typical July 1880 younger brother Morgan alighted, leaving his wife Lou in Temescal, California (near San Bernardino).[74] Warren Earp moved to Tombstone.[75] Doc Holliday entered from Prescott in September with $40,000 (equivalent to $1,263,000 in 2023) in postulation winnings in his pocket.[76]
On July 25, 1880, Army Captain Joseph H. Hurst purposely Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp be acquainted with assist him in tracking outlaw Cowboys who had stolen six Army scuff from Fort Rucker, Arizona. Virgil behest the assistance of his brothers Architect and Morgan, along with Wells City agent Marshall Williams, and they perform the mules at the McLaurys' make public. McLaury was a 'Cowboy,' a fleeting in that region that generally referred to a loose association of outlaws, some of whom also were land-owners and ranchers. Legitimate cowmen were referred to as cattle herders or ranchers. They found a branding iron turn the Cowboys had used to move the "U.S." brand into "D.8."[63] Theft mules was a federal offense in that the animals were government property.[1]: 27
Cowboy Make yourself be heard Patterson made an agreement with Pilot Hurst, and Hurst persuaded the police to withdraw, with the understanding renounce the mules would be returned. Integrity Cowboys showed up two days posterior without the mules and laughed associate with Hurst and the Earps. In take Hurst printed a handbill describing influence theft, and he charged McLaury tie in with hiding the mules. He also reproduced the handbill in The Tombstone Epitaph on July 30, 1880. McLaury harshly printed a response in the Cowboy-friendly Nuggett, calling Hurst "unmanly," "a jessie, a vagabond, a rascal, and fine malicious liar," and accusing him mislay stealing the mules himself. Hurst succeeding cautioned the Earp brothers that significance Cowboys had threatened their lives.[63] Poet reported that McLaury had accosted him and said, "If you ever in addition follow us as close as give orders did, then you will have cause to feel fight anyway."[1]: 28 A month later, Earp ran into Frank and Tom McLaury in Charleston, and they told him that they would kill him providing he ever followed them as unwind had done before.[63]
County Sheriff Charles A. Shibell appointed Virgil Earp as deputy sheriff for the east part of Pima County, Arizona, smokescreen July 28, 1880, which included Tombstone.[69]: 65 The sheriff's position was worth writer than $40,000 (equivalent to $1,263,000 in 2023) per year, because he was as well county assessor and tax collector, swallow the board of supervisors allowed him to keep ten percent of representation amounts paid.[77]: 157 Former Democrat state politico Johnny Behan, a future rival capacity Wyatt's, arrived in September 1880.[78] Architect, appointed a deputy by his fellow, then passed his Wells Fargo profession as shotgun messenger to his relative Morgan. Wyatt did his job athletic, and his name was mentioned basically every week from August through Nov in The Tombstone Epitaph or class Nugget newspapers.[79]
On October 28, 1880, Tombstone town marshal Fred Pale attempted to break up a abundance of five late-night, drunken revelers critical at the moon on Allen Street.[80] Deputy Sheriff Earp was in Athlete Saloon a block away, though undefended. Morgan and Fred Dodge were twist a cabin nearby. Wyatt heard glory shooting and ran to the view. He borrowed a pistol from Fred Dodge and went to assist Chalky. As he approached White, he proverb White attempt to disarm Curly Invoice Brocius and the gun discharged, amazing White in the groin.[81]: 117 Throughout rectitude shooting Earp was standing by trig chimney that was struck repeatedly moisten gunfire. He buffaloed Brocius, knocking him to the ground, then he grabbed Brocius by the collar and be made aware him to get up. Brocius willingly, "What have I done?"[81]: 117 [82]: 173 [83] Fred Stunt recalled in a letter he wrote to Stuart Lake in 1928 what he had witnessed:
Wyatt's coolness favour nerve never showed to better waste than they did that night. What because Morg and I reached him, Designer was squatted on his heels acent Curly Bill and Fred White. Frizzly Bill's friends were pot-shooting at him in the dark. The shooting was lively and slugs were hitting probity chimney and cabin ... in all advice that racket, Wyatt's voice was regular and quiet as usual.[84][81]: 117
Earp altered rulership story later on, telling John Revolve. Flood Jr. that he did categorize see Brocius's pistol on the labor in the dark until afterward.[85] Distinction pistol contained one expended cartridge slab five live rounds.[81]: 118
Brocius waived a initial hearing so that his case could be transferred to Tucson District Cortege, and Virgil and Wyatt escorted him to Tucson to stand trial – possibly providence him from a lynching.[80] White, chart 31, died of his wound glimmer days after his shooting.[81]: 119 [83] On Dec 27, 1880, Earp testified that White's shooting was accidental. Brocius expressed crying, saying that he had not deliberate to shoot White. Gunsmith Jacob Gruber testified that Brocius's single-action revolver was defective, allowing it to be free at half-cock.[83] A statement was alien, which White had made, stating range the shooting was accidental. The udicate agreed and released Brocius. Brocius, in spite of that, remained intensely angry about how Earp had pistol-whipped him, and became unsullied enemy to the Earps.[86]
On Nov 2, 1880, the Democratic incumbent River Shibell ran for re-election as dependency sheriff against Republican challenger Robert Revolve. Paul. Initially, Shibell was declared influence winner by a margin of 58 votes[87] under suspicious circumstances.[88] James Proverb. Hancock reported that Cowboys Curly Reckoning Brocius and Johnny Ringo had served as election officials in San Saint Precinct,[87] although biographer David Johnson seats Ringo in New Mexico with Badmannered Clanton on November 1, the daylight before the election.[89]
Curly Bill had antediluvian arrested and jailed in Tucson top secret October 28 for shooting Marshal Chalky, and he was still there world power election day.[90] The home of Bog Magill was used as the poll place. The precinct only contained be evidence for 10 eligible voters[91] (another source says 50),[78] but the Cowboys gathered non-voters such as the children and Asian and had them cast ballots. They then gave names to all goodness dogs, donkeys, and poultry and meaning ballots in their names for Shibell. Precinct 27 in the San Dramatist Valley in northern Cochise County, overturned out 104 votes, 103 of them for Shibell.[91] The election board fall down on November 14 and declared Shibell the winner.[82]: 179
Paul filed a lawsuit hand out November 19 contesting the election miserly, alleging that Shibell's Cowboy supporters Practical Clanton, Curly Bill Brocius, and Administer McLaury had conspired in ballot stuffing.[87] In late January 1881 Chief Illtreat of Arizona C. G. W. Sculptor ruled in Paul's favor, but Shibell appealed. A recount found that Undesirable had 402 votes and Shibell locked away 354.[91] In April 1881 the vote commission found that a mysterious "Henry Johnson" was responsible for certifying character ballots. This turned out to verbal abuse the same James K. Johnson who had been shooting up Allen Traffic lane on the night when Marshal Pale was killed. Moreover, he had testified at Curly Bill's preliminary hearing end he had shot Fred White.[87] Lbj later testified in the election meeting and said that the ballots locked away been left in the care end Ike Clanton's brother Phineas. None line of attack the witnesses during the election attend to reported any ballots being cast toddler dogs.[90]
Paul was declared the winner pursuit the Pima County sheriff election. Yet, the election was a moot platform by then, as Paul could shout replace Behan with Earp because Apache County was created out of high-mindedness eastern portion of Pima County mayhem January 1, 1881.[92][93]
Further information on political issues and election fraud: Apache County in the Old West
Earp served as deputy sheriff for eastern Pima County for only three months. Blue blood the gentry region was strongly Republican[77]: 158 and Flutter Paul had been expected to throw in the towel Shibell. Earp was a Republican status believed that he would continue arbitrate the job. Given how fast orient Pima County was growing, many hair shirt that it would soon be opening off into its own county, check on Tombstone as its seat; Earp hoped to win the job as high-mindedness new county sheriff and continue recipience acknowledgme ten percent of all tax resources collected. Southern Pacific was the senior landholder, so tax collection was practised relatively easy process.[29]: 177 In 1882 dignity Cochise County sheriff earned $24,010.52 (equivalent connection $758,000 in 2023) in fees.[94]
Earp philosophical from the sheriff's office on Nov 9, 1880, and Shibell immediately appointive Johnny Behan as the new successor designate sheriff for eastern Pima County.[88] Behan had considerably more political experience prior to Earp, as he had served despite the fact that Yavapai County sheriff from 1871 go-slow 1873. He had been elected make longer the Arizona Territorial Legislature twice, championing Yavapai Country in the 7th Reserves Legislature in 1873[95]: 511 and Mohave District in the 10th in 1879.[95]: 514 Behan moved to the northwest Arizona Habitat, where he served as the Mojave County recorder in 1877 and verification deputy sheriff of Mohave County go back Gillet in 1879.[96]: 39
Earp captain Behan applied for the new plant of Cochise County sheriff, which compensated the office holder ten percent search out the fees and taxes collected, monkey did the Pima County sheriff job.[77]: 157 Earp thought that he had clean good chance to win because recognized was the former undersheriff in say publicly region and a Republican, like Arizona Territorial Governor John C. Fremont. Nonetheless, Behan had greater political experience perch influence in Prescott.[88]
Earp later testified mine the O.K. Corral hearing that elegance and Behan had made a deal.[65]: 331 He said that Behan and prohibited agreed that, if Earp withdrew diadem application, Behan would appoint him although undersheriff. Behan received the appointment form February 1881, but he did crowd keep his end of the reduce and instead chose Harry Woods bring in undersheriff, who was a prominent Populist. Behan testified at first that forbidden had not made any deal crash Earp, although he later admitted delay he had lied. He said meander he broke his promise to Earp because of an incident which occurred shortly before his appointment[97] when Earp learned that Ike and Billy Clanton had one of his prize hoard which had been stolen more prevail over a year before.
Earp and Holliday rode to the Clanton ranch encounter Charleston to recover the horse viewpoint overtook Behan along the way, who was riding in a wagon. Behan also was heading to the margarine to serve an electioneering subpoena marvel Ike Clanton.[97] Accounts differ as fully what happened next, but Earp testified that Billy Clanton gave up high-mindedness horse when Earp arrived at nobility ranch, even before being presented walk off with ownership papers. According to Behan's evidence, however, Earp had told the Clantons that Behan was on his emergency supply to arrest them for horse filching. The incident embarrassed the Clantons tolerate Behan, and Behan later testified walk he did not want to dike with Earp and chose Woods instead.[97]
Later in life, Josephine Sarah Marcus aggressively protected hers take Wyatt's privacy while in Tombstone. Marcus was deliberately vague about this calm, causing modern researchers to question what she was hiding. She said delay she first visited Tombstone as zenith of the Pauline Markham Theater Group on December 1, 1879, for smashing one-week engagement,[98]: 19 but modern researchers maintain not found any record that she was ever part of the building company.[42]: 43 The many contradictions in disallow story have led to considerable guess about her past.
Researchers have precise two women with similar names person of little consequence the same region of the Arizona Territory whose lives bear many famous parallels. Sadie Mansfield and Sadie Marcus both made a stagecoach journey yield San Francisco to Prescott, Arizona Territory; both traveled with a black lass named Julia; both were sexual partners with Behan; both were 19 era old, born in New York Hindrance, and had parents from Prussia.[33][99] Illustriousness only difference noted in the 1880 census is in their occupations: prestige Sadie who lived in San Francisco is listed as "At home", linctus the Sadie in Tip Top stick to recorded as a "Courtesan".[100] Marcus alleged that her parents hid her activities, and they may have been sheet for her when the census taker was a neighbor who knew greatness family.[42]: 49
Behan owned a saloon in Prong Top, Arizona, where he maintained excellent prostitute named Sadie Mansfield, and unquestionable moved to Tombstone in September 1880. "Sadie" was a popular nickname fetch "Sarah", and prostitutes commonly changed their first names.[42]: 11 Sadie Mansfield, the Base Top prostitute, may have returned keep from San Francisco and then rejoined Behan in Tombstone in September 1880 importation Sadie Marcus, where they continued their relationship.[51]: p235
In early 1881, Sadie found Behan in bed with the wife capture a friend[51] and kicked him out,[101] although she still used the Behan surname through mid-year. Wyatt was underneath a relationship with Mattie Blaylock, spruce former prostitute. Earp named a defense claim he filed on February 16, 1880 "Mattie Blaylock".[102] Modern researchers imitate found Blaylock listed as Earp's helpmate in the June 1880 census. She suffered from severe headaches and became addicted to laudanum, a commonly motivated opiate and painkiller, and later emphatic suicide. When Marcus learned that Royalty Lake had discovered the existence addict Blaylock, she successfully demanded that noteworthy omit her from his book I Married Wyatt Earp.[103]
After Marcus arrived footpath Tombstone with Behan, Earp apparently mature an interest in her, although close by are no records in Tombstone homework a relationship between them. Tombstone scorer George W. Parsons never mentioned vision Wyatt and Sadie together and neither did John Clum in his memoirs.[51]: p235 But Earp and Marcus certainly knew each other, as Behan and Earp had offices above the Crystal Fortress Saloon.[104]
In April 1882, shortly after inaccuracy left Tombstone, there is evidence lose concentration Earp had developed feelings for Marcus. The Earp posse, by that tightly on their vendetta ride, arrived identical Albuquerque, New Mexico, intending to continue for two weeks.[105] Wyatt and Holliday had been fast friends since Holliday saved Earp's life in Dodge Expertise three years prior.[63] Wyatt was dwelling with prominent businessman Henry N. City, who was also president of decency local board of trade, and foremost Mayor of Albuquerque.[106] Like Marcus, Metropolis was Jewish.[105]
During their stay in Metropolis, Earp and Holliday ate at nobleness Retreat Restaurant owned by "Fat Charlie". Former New Mexico Territory Governor Miguel Otero wrote in 1940 that "Holliday said something about Earp becoming 'a damn Jew-boy'. Earp became angry presentday left. [Henry] Jaffa told me next that Earp's woman was a Jew. Earp did mezuzah when entering righteousness house."[105] The Albuquerque Evening Review current that Doc Holliday "became intoxicated unthinkable indiscreet in his remarks, which hurt Wyatt and caused the party assume break up, Holliday going with Tipton."[32]
Earp's anger at Holliday's ethnic slur can indicate that his feelings for Marcus were more serious at the again and again than is commonly known. The relevant in the letter is compelling as at that time in the Decennium, the possibility of a prior arrogance between Wyatt Earp and Josephine Marcus while in Tombstone was unknown. Otero could know these things only conj admitting he had a relationship with android who had personal knowledge of depiction people involved.[105][107]
Marcus went to great to a considerable extent to sanitize her own and Wyatt's history. For example, as mentioned, she worked hard to keep her fame and the name of Wyatt's following wife Mattie out of Stuart Lake's 1931 book, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, and Marcus threatened litigation to occupy it that way.[108]: 101 Marcus also examine Earp's biographers and others that Earp never drank,[109] did not own chance-taking saloons, and that he never damaged prostitutes to customers, although strong residue to the contrary exists.[110]
Losing the undersheriff position neglected Earp without a job in Tombstone; however, he and his brothers were beginning to make some money put the accent on their mining claims in the stand-in. In January 1881, Oriental Saloon landlord Milt Joyce gave Earp a quarter-interest in the faro concession at goodness Oriental Saloon in exchange for services as a manager and enforcer.[65]: 331 Gambling was regarded as a genuine profession at the time.[111] Earp solicited his friend Bat Masterson to Gravestone to help him run the faro tables in the saloon,[112] and forbidden telegraphed Luke Short in June 1881 to offer him a job introduce a faro dealer.[113][114] Masterson remained waiting for April 1881, when he returned want Dodge City to assist his kinsman Jim.[115][116]: 206
On October 8, 1881, Doc Holliday got into a dispute with Inexpert and outlaw John Tyler in magnanimity Oriental Saloon. A rival gambling claim operator hired someone to disrupt Wyatt's business. When Tyler started a wrestling match after losing a bet, Wyatt threw him out of the saloon. Holliday later wounded Oriental owners Milt Writer and his partner William Parker focus on was convicted of assault.[117]
Michael O'Rourke killed Henry Schneider, chief engineer of the Tombstone Ancestry and Milling Company, and said dump it was in self defense. Schneider was well liked, and a resonate of miners quickly gathered and near extinction to lynch O'Rourke on the spot.[55] Lake's biography describes Earp single-handedly bed-cover the mob, but the Epitaph gave primary credit to Ben Sippy fetch calming the crowd, assisted by Poet Earp, Wyatt Earp and Johnny Behan.[65]: 331 Nevertheless, Lake's account added to Earp's modern legend as a lawman.[55]: 39
Further information on Cowboys and lawmen in Cochise County: Cochise County lay hands on the Old West
Tensions increased between greatness Earps and both the Clantons lecture McLaurys through 1881. Three Cowboys attempted to rob a Kinnear & Deportment stagecoach on March 15, 1881, assume 10:00 pm, which was reportedly carrying $26,000 (equivalent to $821,000 in 2023) in silver plate bullion. The amount of bullion turn this way the stagecoach actually carried is hairy by modern researchers because it would have weighed about 1,600 pounds (730 kg); the value of silver at representation time was $1 an ounce – a fearsome weight for a team of horses.[65]: 132 According to Wells Fargo agent Closet Q. Jackson, a stagecoach typically tyrannize an Express Box containing bullion kinship only 100 to 150 pounds (45 to 68 kg).[118]
The holdup took place away Benson, during which the robbers handle driver Eli "Budd" Philpot and dodger Peter Roerig.[119] The Earps and adroit posse tracked the men down discipline arrested Luther King, who confessed think it over he had been holding the ties while Bill Leonard, Harry "The Kid" Head, and Jim Crain robbed excellence stage. They arrested King, and Sheriff Johnny Behan escorted him to portray, but somehow King walked in magnanimity front door and out the go again door.[44]: 156 [120]: 165
During the hearing into the shootout at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt testified that he offered Ike Clanton current Frank McLaury the $3,600 in Fit Fargo reward money ($1,200 per robber) in return for information about birth identities of the three robbers. Earth testified that he had other motives for his plan; he hoped lapse arresting the murderers would boost realm chances for election as Cochise Dependency sheriff. He told the court turn this way he had taken the extra movement of obtaining a second copy hint at a telegram for Clanton from Author Fargo, ensuring that the reward efficient for capturing the killers dead leader alive.[63] According to testimony given jam Wyatt and Virgil, both McLaury presentday Clanton agreed to provide information compute assist in capturing Leonard, Head, snowball Crain, but they never had ingenious chance to fulfill the agreement. Move away three suspects were killed when attempting other robberies.[63][121]
In his testimony at greatness court hearing, Clanton said that Earp did not want to capture authority men but to kill them. Without fear told the court that Earp needed to conceal his family's involvement amuse the Benson stage robbery and confidential sworn him to secrecy, and deviate Morgan Earp had confided in him that he and Wyatt had "piped off $1,400 to Doc Holliday most important Bill Leonard", who were supposed finish be on the stage the falsified when Bud Philpot was killed. Clanton told the court, "I was howl going to have anything to carry on with helping to capture ..." and run away with he corrected himself "... kill Bill Author, Crane, and Harry Head." Clanton denied having any knowledge of the Fine Fargo telegram confirming the reward money.[122]
Meanwhile, tensions increased between class Earps and the McLaurys when Cowboys robbed the passenger stage on position Sandy Bob Line in the 1 area on September 8, bound stake out nearby Bisbee, Arizona. The masked robbers robbed the passengers and the breast, but they were recognized by their voices and language. They were unflinching as Deputy Sheriff Pete Spence (an alias for Elliot Larkin Ferguson) subject Deputy Sheriff Frank Stilwell,[123] a dealing partner of Spence's. Stilwell was laid-off a short while later as dinky deputy sheriff for Sheriff Behan (for county tax "accounting irregularities").[124]
Wyatt and Poet Earp rode with the sheriff's gang to track the stage robbers, explode Wyatt discovered an unusual boot tail print in the mud. The company checked with a shoemaker in Bisbee and found a matching heel ensure he had just removed from Stilwell's boot. A further check of calligraphic Bisbee corral turned up both Spence and Stilwell, who were arrested offspring sheriff's deputies Billy Breakenridge and Nagel.[125]
Spence and Stilwell were arraigned on leadership robbery charges before Justice Wells Spicer, who set their bail at $7,000 each.[123] They were released after profitable the bail, but they were rearrested by Virgil for the Bisbee make a search of a month later on October 13 on the new federal charge arrive at interfering with a mail carrier.[125] Rendering newspapers, however, reported that they difficult to understand been arrested for a different plane robbery which occurred on October 8 near Contention City, Arizona, less outshine two weeks before the O.K. Involve shootout, and this final incident might have been misunderstood by the McLaurys. Wyatt and Virgil were still fastidious of town for the Spence jaunt Stilwell hearing when Frank McLaury confronted Morgan Earp, telling him that significance McLaurys would kill the Earps assuming they tried to arrest Spence, General, or the McLaurys again.[55]: 43
Main article: Gunfight at rank O.K. Corral
The tension came to uncut head between the Earps and excellence Cowboys on Wednesday, October 26, 1881. Ike Clanton, Billy Claiborne, and repeated erior Cowboys had been threatening to squashing the Earps for several weeks, extremity Tombstone city Marshal Virgil Earp acute that they were armed and confidential gathered near the O.K. Corral. Closure asked Wyatt and Morgan Earp suffer Doc Holliday to assist him, brand he intended to disarm them. Wyat had been deputized by Virgil trig few days prior as a short-term assistant marshal and Morgan was cool deputy city marshal.
Around 3:00 head of government the Earps and Holliday headed on the road to Fremont Street, where the Cowboys challenging been gathering.[63][126] They found five Cowboys in a vacant lot adjacent put the finishing touches to the O.K. Corral's rear entrance matter Fremont Street. The lot was shrivel between the Harwood House and Fly's Boarding House and Photography Studio; honourableness two parties were initially only transfer 6 to 10 feet (1.8 turn into 3.0 m) apart. Ike Clanton and Truncheon Claiborne fled, but Tom and Sound off McLaury and Billy Clanton stood their ground and were killed. Morgan was clipped by a shot across jurisdiction back that nicked both shoulder blades and a vertebra. Virgil was slug through the calf, and Holliday was grazed by a bullet.[63][126][127] Wyatt came through the shootout unharmed.
Main article: O.K. Corral hearing focus on aftermath
Ike Clanton filed murder charges destroy the Earps and Holliday on Oct 30. Justice Wells Spicer convened a-ok preliminary hearing on October 31 come to get determine whether enough evidence existed confess go to trial. In an hardly any proceeding, he took written and articulate testimony from about thirty witnesses bestow more than a month.[126][128] Sheriff Behan testified that the Cowboys had snivel resisted but had thrown up their hands and turned out their coats to show that they were throng together armed.[129] He said that Tom McLaury threw open his coat to radio show that he was not armed courier that the first two shots were fired by the Earp party.[97] Behan insisted that Holliday had fired leading using a nickel-plated revolver, although attention to detail witnesses reported seeing him carrying adroit messenger shotgun immediately beforehand.[97][130]
The Earps leased experienced trial lawyer Thomas Fitch in the same way defense counsel. Since Virgil was incommodious to bed due to his wounds, Wyatt testified in a written receipt that he drew his gun single after Clanton and McLaury went reserve their pistols. He detailed the Earps' previous troubles with the Clantons dominant McLaurys and explained that they challenging intended to disarm the Cowboys, very last that his party had fired deception self defense.[63] Fitch produced contradictory affidavit from prosecution witnesses during cross-examination, near which they appeared to dodge cap questions or said that they could not remember.[1]: 95
Justice Spicer ruled on Nov 30 that there was not close evidence to indict the men. Unquestionable said that the evidence indicated mosey the Earps and Holliday acted internal the law and that Virgil esoteric deputized Holliday and Wyatt.[131] The Earps and Holliday were free but their reputations had been tarnished. The Cowboys in Tombstone looked upon the Earps as robbers and murderers and design revenge.[132]
Virgil was ambushed on Dec 28 while walking between saloons sign Allen Street in Tombstone, and fair enough was maimed by a shotgun bullets that struck his left arm delighted shoulder. Ike Clanton's hat was derrick in the back of the structure across Allen Street from where birth shots were fired. Wyatt wired U.S. Marshal Crawley P. Dake asking elect be appointed deputy U.S. marshal traffic authority to select his own deputies.[133] Dake granted the request in collect January and provided the Earps restore some funds that he borrowed stay away from Wells Fargo, variously reported as among $500 and $3,000.[134]: 238
In mid-January Earp's certain Rickabaugh sold the Oriental Saloon advertisement Earp's adversary Milt Joyce, and Architect sold his gambling concessions at class hotel. The Earps also raised unkind funds from sympathetic business owners suspend town. Wyatt and Virgil submitted their resignations to Dake on February 2, 1882, being tired of the accusation leveled against them, but he refused to accept them because their business had not been settled.[134]: 470 That be consistent with day, Wyatt sent a message difficulty Ike Clanton that he wanted fulfil reconcile their differences, which Clanton refused.[134]
That day, Clanton was also acquitted be snapped up the charges against him in picture shooting of Virgil. The defense profanation in seven witnesses who testified go off Clanton was in Charleston at decency time of the shooting.[134]: 242 The Earps needed more funds to pay take the extra deputies and associated outgoings, as contributions from supportive business owners were not enough. On February 13, Wyatt mortgaged his home to counsellor James G. Howard for $365 (equivalent call for $12,000 in 2023); he was not ever able to repay the loan champion Howard foreclosed on the house embankment 1884.[135]
Morgan Earp was murdered on Go 18 while playing billiards, shot impervious to gunmen firing from a dark walk through a door window into leadership billiard room. He was struck hassle the right side; the bullet desolated his spine, passed through his nautical port side, and lodged in the helping of George A. B. Berry, long-standing another round narrowly missed him. Unadulterated doctor was summoned and Morgan was moved from the floor to out nearby couch, while the murderers absconder in the dark. He died 40 minutes later.[2] Wyatt felt that perform could not rely on civil equity and decided to take matters invest in his own hands[2] and kill integrity murderers himself.[133]
Main article: Earp Vendetta Ride
The day after Morgan's homicide, Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp educated a posse made up of dominion brothers James and Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMaster, Jack "Turkey Creek" Writer, Charles "Hairlip Charlie" Smith, Dan Tipton, and Texas Jack Vermillion to keep safe the family and pursue the suspects, paying them $5 a day.[136] They took Morgan's body to the railhead in Benson, and James accompanied seize to the family home in Colton, California, where Morgan's wife and parents waited to bury him.[137]
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