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Wyatt Earp Really Did Drag Johnny Tyler Out of the Oriental Saloon

by | Nov 6, 2017 | True West Blog

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Remember a scene in Tombstone where Wyatt Earp leads gambler Johnny Tyler out of the Oriental and into the street?  Something like that really happened. Tyler was head of a gambling group called The Slopers.  In mid-February 1881, he pulled a gun on a dealer at the Oriental, trying to take over the game.  That was when Earp disarmed Tyler, grabbed him by the ear and threw him out


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