Wyatt Earps Embarrassing Moment It was a moment Wyatt Earp wanted to forget. He was lounging in a Wichita saloon on January 9, 1876. His pistol...
Wyatt Earp’s Embarrassing Moment
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At one point in the classic movie Shane, the hero (played by Alan Ladd) wins a brutal fistfight with several of the bad guys. One of the baddies is...
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