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Virgil Earp
Outlaw Turned Lawman Turned Outlaw The strange tale of Ben Sippy.
Ben Sippy is best known as the man who beat Virgil Earp in the election for Tombstone marshal in 1880—and then suddenly (and somewhat mysteriously)...
Shotguns at Midnight: Virgil Earp vs. Unknown Assailants
Suspicion Points to Ike Clanton, Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, Hank Swilling and Frank Stilwell. Take Your Pick!
Virgil Returns
The former lawman’s eight years in Yavapai County may have been the best of his life.
Birth Of A Lawman
Civil War veteran Virgil Earp was just settling down in Prescott when he joined a posse. his life was never the same.
A Plot In Portland Why was Virgil Earp buried in Oregon?
Virgil Earp mostly live in the Southwest into California and Nevada. But he ended up in a grave in Portland, Oregon. Earp was married in 1860 and...
Didn’t Have A Prayer George Wilson called out to God, and then…
A Prescott, Arizona Territory posse was after George Wilson and his pal. They’d murdered a man in October 1877. Virgil Earp was deputized—his...
Why Don’t People Remember Virgil Earp? Why do you suppose he doesn’t get the credit he deserves?
Why is Wyatt Earp a western household name and his older brother Virgil, who was the real “Frontier Marshal” of the two, so little-known? Don Chaput...
Earps Gone Wild
Brothers Wyatt and Morgan’s “bum” year pimping in Peoria, Illinois, primed them for their future as frontier boomtown opportunists on both sides of the law.
Death at his Elbow
If you took all the alcohol out of the Wild West era, you would certainly save a forest of trees, because all of the printed stories of shooting,...
A Lesser Known Bad Man
Phin Clanton was the oldest of the Clanton boys. He managed to avoid the notoriety of his brothers Ike and Billy—mostly because he wasn’t at the OK...
A Cow-Boy in Retirement
Pete Spence is best known for his time as a Cow-boy in the Tombstone time of troubles. He may have been involved in the shooting of Virgil Earp and...