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Wyatt Earp, born Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, was born on March 19, 1848 inManmouth, Illinois to Nicholas and Virginia Earp. When Wyatt was two, his parentsmoved him across the Mississippi River to Pella, Iowa. He was considered a greatwestern lawman. His first experience as a lawman was as a constable of Lamar, Missourifor four months in the year 1870. In April, 1875, he was appointed to the Wichita Kansaspolice force only to be released from that job on April 2, 1876 for insubordination. Afterthat, Wyatt moved to Dodge City, Kansas where he served as a police man three separatetimes. The first time he served from May 17 until September 9, 1876; the second time heserved was from July 6 until late November, 1877; and the last time that he served as apolice man in Dodge City was from May 12, 1878 until September 8, 1879. After that onand off police work in Dodge City, Wyatt decided to move to Tombstone, Arizona. Hepicked up and moved to Tombstone on December 1, 1879. When he got there he took upthe job that was most natural to him, law enforcement. Wyatt had several jobs while living in Tombstone. The first job that he acquiredwhen he got to Tombstone was riding shotgun for Wells, Fargo & Company
Virgil, Wyatt's older brother, was Tombstone's city marshal at the time of the shootout. Casey Tefertiller, Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (New York: JohnWiley and Sons, Inc. Eight weeks after the gunfight, Virgil was ambushed by men with shotguns. When the rest of the "Cowboy" clan found out about thisgunfight, they thought of it as cold blooded murder and were enraged. Corral" has much more of a Western ring to it. He was no longer theman with a gun shooting bad guys, now he was the man behind the desk trying to figureout who robbed the last truck. Charles Phillilps, Vol 3, (New York:Simon and Schuster Macmillian, 1996), 1221. Anyonecan go to Tombstone, Arizona and watch the reenactments. This made the outlaws think that the Earp brotherswere about to murder them so they drew their weapons. Both of these movies are true to the Hollywood style of exaggeration. They made up adeath list that included the Earp brothers, Doc, the Mayor and even Wyatt's lawyer.
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