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1. After a Midwestern childhood, he headed to California by wagon train as a teen.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, on March 19, 1848, and named for his father’s commander in the Mexican-American War. Earp’s father had a number of occupations, including farmer, justice of the peace and bootlegger, and Wyatt spent his childhood in Illinois and Iowa.
After the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Earp ran away from the family farm and tried to join the Union army; however, his father found him and brought him home. In 1864, the Earps left Iowa and ventured west by wagon train. Along the way, the travelers had to contend with Indian raids and Wyatt reportedly witnessed his first gunfight.
By the end of 1864, the Earps reached San Bernardino, California, where Wyatt labored on his father’s new farm then hauled freight and worked in railroad camps.
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2. He was a lawman in the 'Wickedest Little City in the West.'
By 1870, Earp got his first job in law enforcement, as town constable in Lamar, Missouri, where his family had relocated. He left the job in 1871, having been accused of mishandling public funds. That same year, he was arrested for stealing horses in Indian Territory (present-day Okla
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV western (1955-1961)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults.[1][2] It premiered four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955.[3] Two weeks later came the Clint Walker western Cheyenne. The series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour, black-and-white program aired for six seasons (229 episodes) on ABC from 1955 to 1961, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role.
Plot
[edit]The first season of the series purports to tell the story of Wyatt's experiences as deputy town marshal of Ellsworth, Kansas (first four episodes), and then as town marshal in Wichita. In the second episode of the second season, first aired September 4, 1956, he is hired as assistant city marshal of Dodge City, where the setting remained for three seasons. The final episode set in Dodge City (Season 5, Episode 1 - "Dodge City: Hail and Farewell") aired on September 1, 1959. Beginning the next week on September 8, 1959 (Season 5, Episode 2 - "The Trail to Tombstone"), the locale shifted to Tombstone, Arizona Territory, for the remainder of the series.[4][5]
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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp | |
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| Born | Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-03-19)March 19, 1848 Monmouth, Writer County |
| Died | January 13, 1929(1929-01-13) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation(s) | Old Western lawman, bovid hunter, barroom owner, chuckerout, gold pointer copper wish owner, enclosing referee |
| Years active | 1865–1898 |
| Known for | Gunfight rib the O.K. Corral; Fitzsimmons-Sharkey boxing be at war with decision upheld |
| Opponent(s) | William Brocius; Tomcat and Be honest McLaury; With both feet on the ground and Nightstick Clanton |
| Spouse(s) | Urilla Soprano (wife) Sally Heckell (common-law wife?) Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock (common-law wife) Josephine Wife Marcus (common-law wife) |
| Children | None |
| Relatives | Virgil, Criminal, Morgan, Poet (brothers), Physicist (half brother), Adelia Earp|Adelia]] sister. |
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