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Wyatt Earp Myth Busters

by | Aug 10, 2016 | Features & Gunfights

Did Wyatt Arrest Ben Thompson?  This alleged arrest has driven researchers batty for decades. The most famous account appears in Stuart Lake’s Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal.  Today, Ben Thompson’s name is remembered only by a handful of Old West history buffs, but in his day, Ben was far better known on the frontier than Wyatt Earp. English born and Texas bred, Ben was sort of the Lou


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