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Wyatt Earp

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Also known as Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp

American lawman (1848–1929)

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • How I Routed A Gang Of Arizona Outlaws
  • Wyatt and Josie Earp's Cookbook
  • Rhyming Expressions from the Heart
  • Wyatt Earp Speaks
  • Wyatt Earp Speaks!

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Film & TV

Acting · Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

Wyatt Earp was born on October 2, 1962 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for Tombstone (1993), Windyville and Sordid Lives: The Series (2008). He is the fifth cousin of Wyatt Earp (1848-1929).

Known for

  • Grace of the Gun — Narrator (voice)2011
  • Pretty Ugly People — Airport Announcer (voice)2008
  • Deadwood2004
  • The Making of 'Tombstone' — Self2002
  • Tombstone — Billy Claiborne1993
  • Windyville — Ray

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Verona
Active from
2013-10

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
348
Total plays
1,666

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Quotes

  • [Wyatt] Earp is a man who never smiled or laughed. He was the most fearless man I ever saw. . . . He is an honest man. All officers here who were associated with him declare that he is honest, and would have decided according to his belief in the face of an arsenal. -Dick Cogdell
  • Wyatt Earp was a wonderful officer. He was game to the last ditch and apparently afraid of nothing. The cowmen all respected him and seemed to recognize his superiority and authority at such times as he had to use it. -Jimmy Cairns

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Key facts

Born
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp , ( 1848-03-19 ) March 19, 1848, Monmouth, Illinois , U.S.
Died
January 13, 1929 (1929-01-13) (aged 80), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupations
Lawman buffalo hunter saloon keeper miner brothel keeper boxing referee
Years active
1865–1898
Known for
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ; Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey boxing match decision
Height
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) at age 30
Opponents
William Brocius Tom McLaury Frank McLaury Ike Clanton Billy Clanton Billy Claiborne Johnny Behan
Spouses
Urilla Sutherland ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1870 ; died 1870 ) ​ Sally Heckell ​ ( 1872 ⁠ – ⁠ 1872 ) ​ Mattie Blaylock ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1878 ⁠ – ⁠ 1881 ) ​ Josephine Marcus ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1882 ) ​
Parents
Nicholas Porter Earp Virginia Ann Cooksey
Relatives
Newton Earp (brother) James Earp (brother) Virgil Earp (brother) Morgan Earp (brother) Warren Earp (brother)

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1848-03-19
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1929-01-13
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Article

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman and an assistant marshal to his brother, Virgil Earp. Earp was involved in the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which he and other lawmen killed three outlaws. While Earp is usually depicted as the key figure in the shootout, his brother Virgil was both the U.S. Marshal and the Tombstone city marshal and had decided to enforce a city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in public in an attempt to neutralize the loosely organized group of outlaws known as the Cochise County Cowboys.

In 1874, Earp arrived in the boomtown of Wichita, Kansas, where his alleged wife opened a brothel. At this brothel, Earp was arrested more than once; he may have been a pimp. He was appointed to the Wichita police force and developed a good reputation as a lawman but was "not rehired as a police officer" after a physical altercation with a political opponent of his boss. Earp left Wichita, following his brother James to Dodge City, Kansas, where his brother's wife Bessie and Earp's common-law wife Sally operated a brothel. In this city, he became an assistant city marshal. In 1878, he went to Texas to track down an outlaw, Dave Rudabaugh, and met John "Doc" Holliday, whom Wyatt credited with saving his life.

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