Wyatt EarpLawman and Adventurer

Wyatt Earp is best known as the fearless frontier lawman of Wichita and

Dodge City, Kansas, and as principal survivor of the Gunfight at the OK Corral.

But the Marshall Earp of legend accounted for only about 5 years of Wyatt's long

and eventful life.

Wyatt spent most of his years traveling and living in the deserts of the

Southwest with his four brothers Virgil, Morgan, James and Warren, as well as

his wife Josie. His lifelong passion for mining, gambling and sports led him from

one boomtown to another across the span of the western frontier and into the

20th century.

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, 1848 in Monmouth,

Illinois. His father Nicholas was a lawyer who preferred a life of farming. From an

early age, Wyatt learned from his father to stand up for what was right. When

Wyatt was two years old, the family moved to Iowa. In 1861, the Civil War broke

out, and Wyatt's father and three older brothers joined the Union Arm...