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Wyatt Earp, born Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, was born on March 19, 1848 in

Manmouth, Illinois to Nicholas and Virginia Earp. When Wyatt was two, his parents

moved him across the Mississippi River to Pella, Iowa. He was considered a great

western lawman. His first experience as a lawman was as a constable of Lamar, Missouri

for four months in the year 1870. In April, 1875, he was appointed to the Wichita Kansas

police force only to be released from that job on April 2, 1876 for insubordination. After

that, Wyatt moved to Dodge City, Kansas where he served as a police man three separate

times. The first time he served from May 17 until September 9, 1876; the second time he

served was from July 6 until late November, 1877; and the last time that he served as a

police man in Dodge City was from May 12, 1878 until September 8, 1879. After that on

and off police work in Dodge City, Wyatt decided to move to Tombstone, Arizona. He

picked up and moved to Tombstone on December 1, 1879. When he got there he took up

the job that was most natural to him, law enforcement.

Wyatt had several jobs while living in Tombstone. The first job that he acquired

when he got to Tombstone was riding shotgun for Wells, Fargo & Company

can go to Tombstone, Arizona and watch the reenactments. It has turned into a large

movies produced about these events. One of them is called Tombstone and the other is

"Cowboys" because they heard they were causing trouble and wanted to disarm them.

and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Wyatt was never caught and tried because he

gunfight, they thought of it as cold blooded murder and were enraged. They made up a

Wells, Fargo & Company; the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. This event is very

himself a saloonkeeper, since he had a piece of the gambling winnings at the Oriental

They encountered the outlaws in the side yard of Harwood's house. Supposedly, the

was to their surprise when they got in sight of the villains and saw their pistols at their

other hand, was not so lucky. He was shot and killed one night in a billiard hall while

serving as the deputy sheriff for Pima County from July 29 to November 9, 1880. The

Stuart N. Lake, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (Cambridge: The Riverside Press,

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