Was Wyatt Earp a Horse Thief?

Wyatt Earp’s 1871 arrest for horse theft in the Indian Territory, which first came to light in Ed Bartholomew’s book, Wyatt Earp, 1848 to 1880: The Untold Story, has long troubled some of Earp’s defenders. At the time of the book’s publication in 1963, the image of Earp as a stalwart Western lawman was at its height. Frank Waters had taken a stab at bringing the reputation down a few notches, with his 1960 book, The Earp Brothers of Tombstone, but most people still saw Earp as a h