biography
| name: |
Earp, Wyatt (Berry Stapp)
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pronunciation:
[erp]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1848–1929)
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| biography:
| Gambler, gunfighter, and lawman, born in Monmouth, Illinois, USA. He drifted through the West working at a variety of jobs from confidence trickster to assistant marshal. During his stay in Tombstone, AZ, he befriended Doc Holliday, who joined with the Earp brothers against the Clanton gang in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral (26 Oct 1881). Earp collaborated in the writing of his biography Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal (1931), published after his death. The book portrayed him as a heroic frontiersman of the Wild West. |
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