How come Arizona never extradited Wyatt Earp for the Vendetta Ride killings?
Jim Spell
Sonora, California
Early extradition efforts just after the Vendetta Ride in 1882 were mostly political and didn’t go anywhere. By the 1900s, whatever happened in Cochise County was long forgotten.
Marshall Trimble is Arizona’s official historian, board president of the Arizona Historical Society and vice president of the Wild West History Association. His latest book is Arizona’s Outlaws and L
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