Dan Tipton was a friend of Wyatt Earp and a member of the Vendetta Ride that went
after the killers of Morgan Earp in 1882. In 1883, he likely was a member of the Dodge
City Peace Commission that included Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. He drifted after
that; he spent some time as a U.S. Customs agent in El Paso.
In 1897, Tipton was convicted of smuggling
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