The Long Arm of the Law

Enforcing the law in the early West was a vocation for stout, fearless men. And yet there were at least three who extended the long arm of the law to apprehend malefactors, even after they had only one arm to extend. Virgil Earp was the most famous of the three because of his brother Wyatt and his own participation in Tomb-stone’s fabled “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.” Born in Kentucky in 1843, Virgil was the eldest of the “Fighting Earp Brothers.” After the Civil War in which he fou