Did Sheriff Pat Garrett and Wyatt Earp ever meet or have any professional communication? They lived and became famous in the same year. Their jurisdictions were not that far apart, neither in distance nor in time.
Bobby Gutiérrez
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Good question, Bobby, and you’re right, they were contemporaries and weren't far apart geographically, but as far as I can tell, the two never met. There’s a chance they could have known each other while buffalo hunting i

March 2004
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- When did the Army go from blue uniforms to O.D. (Olive Drab) uniforms?
- I’ve wondered how people in the Old West washed their hair. Did they make their own shampoo?
- When Gunsmoke’s Marshal Dillon, Doc or Festus visited Miss Kitty’s to have a beer and a steak, would they have been presented with a choice of cuts? And by the way, just what was a “grub steak?”
- Did Sheriff Pat Garrett and Wyatt Earp ever meet or have any professional communication? They lived and became famous in the same year. Their jurisdictions were not that far apart, neither in distance nor in time.
- Was Buffalo Bill awarded the Medal of Honor?
- Do you know who made the cross pistols holster rig worn by Curly Bill in the film Tombstone?
- Was there ever such a thing as a Buntline Special (12-inch barrel Colt)? If so, do any exist? In this country, they seem to exist only in men’s minds.
- Storyteller of the Native American
- Elkhorn Ranch
- Eating His Weight in Democrats
- Trail Ride Couture
- Paying Tribute to the Man in Black
- Dodging Fakes
- Four Rivers Cultural Center
- Gun that Killed Jesse James Sets Record
- Ambush at Guadalupe Pass
- Morris Publishing
- Ancient Pueblo Culture Comes Alive
- Hidalgo’s Hardware
- Vera’s Life in the Circus was a Zoo
- Esther Morris