The story goes that Wyatt Earp single-handedly protected Michael O’Rourke—aka Johnny-Behind-the-Deuce—from a Tombstone lynch mob in January 1881. O’Rourke had killed a mining engineer, and the dead man’s colleagues wanted revenge.
But newspaper accounts at the time say Marshal Ben Sippy and his Deputy Virgil Earp,
along with Doc Holliday and John Behan and others, held off the mob until O’Rour
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