Wyatt Earp’s life history is checkered with good and bad events from his early manhood in Missouri to his final days in California. In most published biographical treatments, his shadowy past has generally been glossed over by those who see him as a lawman hero. Were he to have been a 21st-century character, his early unlawful actions—especially in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) and Illinois—would have bee


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