Wyatt Earp, who has become controversial since his fictionalization by television, did serve in both Dodge City and Tombstone as a legally appointed...
Was Wyatt Earp Really a Deputy U.S. Marshal?
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Wyatt Earp
Black and Blue
Some things just have to be said. In this time of renewed racial contention, it is somehow fitting—and timely—that one of the unsung heroes of the...
Why Didn’t the Earp Brothers Have Any Children?
Why Didn't the Earp Brothers Have Any Children? It’s a bit of an anomaly because they came from a family of seven children and one half-brother,...
Sealed With A Kiss Wyatt Earp engaged in a Jewish ritual while he was on the run.
Sealed With A Kiss Wyatt Earp engaged in a Jewish ritual while he was on the run. When Wyatt Earp fled Arizona after the Vendetta Ride, he and his...
The Earps Come To Tombstone But not Josie…
On December 1, 1879, Wyatt, James and Virgil Earp (and spouses) enter Tombstone. They’re looking for the pot of gold, but they’ll end up with...
Witness For The Defense Wyatt Earp watched as others shot it out.
Wyatt Earp was actually a witness to a big gunfight. It was April 14, 1885 at the Gem Saloon in El Paso. Earp and fellow Vendetta rider Dan Tipton...
Weapons In The Court? A claim that the Earps and Holliday had guns during their hearing.
Will McLaury, brother of the late Frank and Tom first attended the Spicer Hearing into the OK Corral gunfight on November 4, 1881. In a letter, he...
Overwhelming Grief The McLaury’s brother suffered a great loss even before the gunfight.
Attorney Will McLaury was the older brother of Frank and Tom, two of the Cowboys killed at the OK Corral. He assisted out with the prosecution of...
Wyatt’s Stallion, the Apache Kid and the Code of the West
What became of Wyatt Earp’s horse, Dick Naylor? When did the first autos appear in the Wild West towns? There is a U.S. National Forest map “The Apache Kid Wilderness” that shows the Apache Kid’s gravesite. Is that accurate? And more.
Eyewitness To Mayhem?
Did Big Nose Kate watch the Tombstone shootout?
Wyatt Earp: Good Guy Or Bad? “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for him and Doc Holliday. Why is he considered a great man today?”
A True West reader asked me the other day, “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for...
An Old Lawdog On The Hunt Wyatt Earp picked up a gun again at age 62.
In October 1910, Old West lawman Wyatt Earp—at age 62—almost got into one more gunfight. Earp was asked to head up a special posse to protect...