Wyatt Earp was not considered a legendary gunfighter during his lifetime. Others of his ilk such as Wild Bill Hickock, Bill Cody, Billy the Kid, John Wesley Hardin and Jesse James were better known.
The street fight that became known as the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" was almost forgotten in the annals of the Old West. Wyatt died peacefully with his boots off in 1929, after the West had passed
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