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Is it true that Wyatt Earp killed only one man in Dodge City, Kansas?

by | Sep 12, 2009 | Inside History

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Is it true that Wyatt Earp killed only one man in Dodge City, Kansas? James Crawley Salem, Oregon Maybe. On July 26, 1878, at about three a.m., a group of Texas cowboys galloped down the street and fired multiple shots into the Comique Theater, where vaudevillian Eddie Foy was performing. Deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Bat and Jim Masterson had been watching the act; they all hit the floor when the bullets flew. As the Texans headed out of town, Earp, Jim Masterson and a few others


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