Lawmen of the Wild West

During the time of Manifest Destiny, there were many law-breaking son of a guns, so in order to get rid of those scalawags that thought they could rob people, trains, and stores, in this paper I will talk about the four main lawmen of the west, Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, and Doc Holliday.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois on March 19, 1848, born to Nicholas Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey Wyatt was the second youngest of the four Earp boys.

In 1864, Wyatt moved with his parents to Colton, California, that is where he got a job as a teamster, and a railroad worker. In 1870, Wyatt returned home and married, but after he suddenly lost his wife to Typhoid Fever he traveled to the Indian Territory, working as a stagecoach driver, and a buffalo hunter. In 1875 he journeyed off to Wichita, Kansas to join the police force. From there, in 1878 he went to Dodge City, Kansas where he became a Faro dealer at the Famous Long Branch Saloon, and the assistant sheriff there. Th

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Later in 1905, Virgil Earp died of pneumonia. In1879, he joined with his brothers and traveled to the new silver mining town of Tombstone, Arizona. Corral shootout; he was wounded, and then kicked off the police force, due to the Murder involved in the shootout. Morgan also went to fight for the Union in the Civil War, after that he went to Tombstone, Arizona to join the Police Force. ere he met Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday, and there he befriended them. And it was there where Wyatt met his new wife, Josephine Marcus Earp. He was clothed in one of Doc Holliday’s suits and shipped to his parents for his burial. Virgil was the center of controversy, when he (against his family wishes) secretly married Ellen Rymsdale in Iowa, on September 21, 1861. And then on March 18, 1882, he was playing pool, and a shot from the darkness hit him and shattered his spine, soon after he died.

Virgil Earp

Virgil was the second oldest of the Earp group, he was born on July 18, 1843, in Kentucky. John later became a dentist, (hence the name Doc) they claim he was a good dentist until he caught tuberculosis.

After the Civil War Virgil went off to Tombstone, Arizona with Morgan, to enlist in the police department.

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