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  1. Nov 16, 2009 · Nearly 50 years after the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp dies quietly in Los Angeles at the age of 80. The Earp brothers had long been competing with the Clanton-McClaury...

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Wyatt_EarpWyatt Earp - Wikipedia

    Earp died on January 13, 1929. Known as a Western lawman, gunfighter, and boxing referee, he had earned notoriety for his handling of the Fitzsimmons–Sharkey fight and his role in the O.K. Corral gunfight.

  3. Jun 7, 2024 · How Did Wyatt Earp Die? A little closer look, though, reveals that Earp — who never was wounded in a gunfight and died at age 80 of natural causes — maybe wasn't that fast. And it really didn't matter.

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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Earp met Doc Holliday on the gambling circuit. Earp met fellow gambler John Henry “Doc” Holliday in Texas in 1878. Holliday, a Georgia native born in 1851, had studied dentistry in Philadelphia.
    • He was arrested for murder after the gunfight at OK Corral. Earp arrived in the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1879, and eventually found periodic work as a law officer.
  4. Dec 11, 2019 · Contrary to the image portrayed in popular culture, Wyatt wasn't always a force for law and order. After the death of his wife in 1870, he was accused of failing to turn in funds collected for the local school board, then arrested on charges of horse theft.

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  6. Nov 6, 2009 · In early 1870, Earp married Urilla Sutherland, but she died of typhoid within the year. Devastated, he sold his newly bought house and left town to move around the Indian Territory and Kansas...