Earp Archives

A Deal Gone Bad

by Mark Boardman | Jun 20, 2024

How a failed arrangement helped lead to Tombstone’s street fight. June 2, 1881. Wyatt Earp approaches Cowboy Ike Clanton with a proposal. If Clanton...

Earp Comes to Dodge

by Mark Boardman | Jun 7, 2024

But he didn’t really build his legend there… May 19, 1876 (or thereabouts). Wyatt Earp is appointed deputy marshal of Dodge City, Kansas. In late...

The Life and Legend Begins

by Mark Boardman | Mar 27, 2024

Wyatt Earp is born in Illinois. March 19, 1848. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp is born in Monmouth, IL. He will live a long and interesting life, often a...

The Earp Brothers and Brothels

by Mark Boardman | Mar 7, 2024

Morgan and Wyatt work the bawdy houses in Peoria. February 24, 1872. Brothers Wyatt and Morgan Earp are arrested in Jane Haspel's brothel in Peoria,...

Testimony in Bed

by Mark Boardman | Nov 29, 2023

Virgil Earp tells his side of the OK Corral shootout. November 19, 1881. The Earp-Holliday preliminary hearing moves to the Cosmopolitan Hotel....

Brooks vs. Earp?

by Mark Boardman | Oct 28, 2022

A case of a shootout that never happened. The legend says that Morgan Earp and Billy Brooks (photo) got into a shootout in Butte, Montana in 1873....

Western Roundup: May 2022

by True West | Mar 31, 2022

Wyatt Earp Days (Pictured) Tombstone, AZ, May 27-28: In honor of famed Tombstone lawman Wyatt Earp, activities include gunfights, a chili cook-off...

How About Those Earp Women

by | Mar 7, 2022

Were any of the Earp women Prostitutes? Yes, you might say all of them dabble in the trade at one time or another. Allie was a former prostitute, as...

An Arizona Adventure

by Peter Corbett | Feb 25, 2022

The Earp brothers’ trail from Prescott to Tombstone is a treasure trove of historic sites. Wyatt Earp, his lawmen brothers and Doc Holliday are best...