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In the News (Wed 19 Nov 08)

  
  Wyatt Earp: Knight with a Six-Shooter
With the blaze of his Buntline Special, Wyatt Earp literally shot his way into the lore of Western Americana.
Earp was a mortal; he had faults, he erred.
With Wyatt Earp, Ford admitted that the legend equals the man.
www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/earp/1.html   (442 words)

  
  Wyatt Earp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848–January 13, 1929), was a Teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alaska.
Wyatt was born March 19, 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois, USA to Nicholas Porter Earp (September 6, 1813 in Lincoln County, North Carolina - November 12, 1907 in Sawtell, California), a cooper and farmer, and his second wife Virginia Ann Cooksey (February 2, 1821 in Kentucky - January 14, 1893 in San Bernardino County, California).
Wyatt was not on the police force in Dodge City in the later part of 1877, although he is listed as being on the force in the spring.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wyatt_Earp   (10481 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp
Wyatt was born in 1848 (March 19th), Morgan in 1851, Warren in 1855 and Adelia in 1861.
Wyatt planned to establish a stage line in Tombstone, but discovered there were already two in town, and bought the gambling concession at the Oriental Saloon instead.
Wyatt, along with his brother Warren and some friends, embarked on a vendetta during which all four suspects were eventually killed.
thenaturalamerican.com /wyatt.htm   (1080 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp
Earp was arrested for violation of the peace and order of the city and was fined on Monday afternoon by his honor Judge Atwood, $30 and cost, and was relieved from the police force.
Wyatt Earp was formerly city marshal of Dodge City, and a paper setting forth his good qualities was circulated last week and signed by all the prominent citizens.
Wyatt expects to become a candidate for sheriff of Cochise county this fall, and as he stands very near to the Governor and all the good citizens of Tombstone and other camps in Cochise county he will without doubt be elected.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWearpW.htm   (3503 words)

  
 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION Wyatt Earp 2000 Plate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Earp left Mattie and with Josie he left Tombstone in March 1882 shortly after his brother Morgan was killed in an ambush.
Earp was a lawman in a time and place when men routinely took the law into their own hands for their own reasons.
Wyatt Earp was drafted from the Cochise County League of Republicans in 1999 and he quickly demonstrated a stamina on the mound that helped the Pisces win the Overleague pennant.
www.cosmicbaseball.com /earp0.html   (1500 words)

  
 Gaslamp Quarter Legend: Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp had a lot of miles under his belt prior to his arrival in San Diego in the late 1800's.
Earp leased four saloons and gambling halls in San Diego, the most famous was his Oyster Bar located in the Louis Bank of Commerce on Fifth Avenue.
Wyatt passed away in Los Angeles in 1929 at the age of 80.
www.gaslamp.org /prof-wyatt.php   (755 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp Historical Home Page
Wyatt was burned up in the national papers for weeks on end after that decision with charges of favoritism and being "fixed".
Earp felt he had a story to tell, and he felt the need to set some facts straight after books starting coming out in the early 1920's at first criticizing him, then the ones that painted him as the man who "tamed the west".
Earp was known to his family, friends, and strangers who met him as being extremely private, a man of few words, and rarely known to talk about the "old days".
www.oldwesthistory.net /oldwest2.html   (3917 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp arrived in Tombstone in 1879 with his two brothers, Virgil and Morgan.
Defendants, Wyatt Earp and John H. Holliday, two of the defendants named in the above action, were arrested upon a warrant issued by me on the 29th day of October on a charge of murder.
The defendants were officers charged with the duty of arresting and disarming brave and determined men who were experts in the use of firearms, as quick as thought and certain as death, and who had previously declared their intentions not to be arrested or disarmed.
www.doney.net /aroundaz/celebrity/earp_wyatt.htm   (1908 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp : Timeline - San Francisco and Alaska
Wyatt argued that he needed one for protection and was released after paying a $50 fine.
Wyatt's story is that he was attempting to assist the deputy marshal and his actions were misconstrued.
Wyatt resented Sadie's gambling habit (Sadie was what Wyatt called Josie all their lives together) and she resented his womanizing.
www.gv.net /~syd/WyattSEarp/history11.html   (1133 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp Historical Home Page
Earp felt he had a story to tell, and he felt the need to set some facts straight after books starting coming out in the early 1920's at first criticizing him, then the ones that painted him as the man who "tamed the west".
Earp was known to his family, friends, and strangers who met him as being extremely private, a man of few words, and rarely known to talk about the "old days".
George Randall, Wyatt Earp and Morgan Earp, three men arrested at the Haspel bagnio on Hamilton street, on Saturday evening last, were brought before Justice Cunningham, yesterday, to answer to a charge of being found in a house of ill fame, and took a change of venue to Justice Rounseville.
oldwesthistory.net /oldwest2.html   (5275 words)

  
 Wyatt EARP Family History: Old West Kansas Families | Kansas Family History | www.kansasheritage.org
Earp collaborated in the writing of his biography "Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal" (1931), published after his death.
The book portrayed his as a heroic frontiersman of the Wild West." Wyatt Earp was cremated in Los Angeles, and his ashes were "buried" in the Marcus family plot in the Hills of Eternity Cemetery.
Wyatt Earp was in Silverton, Colorado following his famed gunfight at the OK Corral.
www.kansasheritage.org /families/earp.html   (587 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp (DesertUSA)
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.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois on March 19, 1848.
Wyatt planned to establish a stage line here, but upon discovering that there were already two in town, he acquired the gambling concession at the Oriental Saloon.
www.desertusa.com /mag98/mar/papr/du_earp.html   (909 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wyatt Earp was born at Monmouth, Illinois on March 19, 1848.
Earp moved on to Lamarr, Missouri, where he worked as the town Marshall for a year.
However Virgil Earp, who was actually the sheriff, while the others were deputies, insisted that the gang be arrested.
members.aol.com /Gibson0817/wearp.htm   (1124 words)

  
 WYATT EARP
Wyatt Earp was born 19 March 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois, but he accompanied his family to California in his teens.
It is quite well-known that Wyatt Earp met a young lady in Tombstone whom he quickly fell in love with: Josephine Marcus.
Wyatt Earp," and she always introduced herself with that name, but Wyatt now consorted more with Josephine.
www.geocities.com /~zybt/earp.htm   (771 words)

  
 Reading Wyatt Earp Films
So by examining the film's peace officer (Wyatt Earp), the forces he contends with (the Clantons) and the town (Tombstone), it is possible to law as a reflection of a cultural era.
Wyatt Earp was born on March 19, 1848 in Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois to Nicholas Porter Earp and Anne Virginia-Ann Cooksey Earp.
Wyatt Earp is not in Tombstone to act as a lawman.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/lsf/coughlin22.htm   (8185 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp, A Biography of the Legend, a New Non-Fiction Book by Lee A. Silva
Wyatt Earp, A Biography of the Legend, Volume One: The Cowtown Years covers the life of Wyatt Earp from his birth in Monmouth, Illinois in 1848 thru the year 1879 just before he moved to Tombstone, Arizona.
With a grim faced Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp packing an always noticeable "Buntline Special" around and conking bad-guys over the head with it during the 1950s Wyatt Earp TV series, a Wyatt "Buntline Special" revolver craze was created that still continues to grow in controversy as well as in legend.
Wyatt Earp, A Biography of the Legend: Volume I, The Cowtown Years was published by Lee A. Silva and was produced in association with Graphic Publishers, Santa Ana, CA 97205.
www.wyattearpbook.com   (1361 words)

  
 Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The adult-western craze that was to render television one big corral in few years is apt not to have occurred had the first two entries not been of the high calibre that they were.
Earp is best remembered for his participation, with his brothers Morgan and Virgil, along side Doc Holliday, in felling the Clanton Gang in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Earp Becomes a Marshal" and depicted Earp assuming the job of his lawman-friend who had been gunned down, avenging his death.
www.mnc.net /we.htm   (516 words)

  
 How Wyatt Earp Got Buried in a Jewish Cemetery
In 1881, Wyatt Earp (still a U. marshal) and his brothers Virgil and Morgan, along with their friend Doc Holliday, attained immortality in a shoot-out with their sworn enemies, the Clanton gang, at the O.K. Corral.
She knew that the Earps and the Clantons had a showdown but, in her first moments on the scene, she couldn’t tell who was left standing.
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday then took justice into their own hands by raiding various outlaw hideouts and killing individuals who they suspected participated in Morgan’s death.
www.ajhs.org /publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=279   (1007 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp Review
Wyatt Earp is the newest entry in Mike Fitzgerald's "Mystery Rummy" series—or it would be if it were in the Mystery Rummy series, which it is not.
It will come as no surprise that the players of Wyatt Earp are trying to capture (or contribute to the capture of) seven of the west's most notorious outlaws: Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Jesse James and their ilk.
In the case of Wyatt Earp, the player drawing cards has the option of either taking the top (faceup) card off the discard pile or the top two (facedown) cards from the draw pile.
www.thegamesjournal.com /reviews/WyattEarp.shtml   (1507 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is buried in a Jewish cemetery, surrounded by tombstones adorned with stone doves, stars of David, and Menorahs, amid a sprinkling of different types of Northern California palm trees.
Wyatt Earp was not Jewish, but his wife was.
Whatever the truth was about Wyatt Earp's life as a lawman and the gunfight at O.K. Corral, the romance and the legend endure, as they will.
www.jewishmag.com /41mag/wyattearp/wyattearp.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 Western film, written by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Kasdan.
The semi-biographical film starred Kevin Costner as lawman Wyatt Earp.
For all its facts and details, the movie is the least accurate movie of the Earps and friends made in the 1970's to 2000's.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wyatt_Earp_(film)   (156 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, 1848, in Monmouth, Illinois and grew up on a farm in Iowa.
In 1897 Wyatt and Josie operated a saloon in Nome, Alaska, during the height of the Alaska Gold Rush.
Wyatt Earp spent his final years working mining claims in the Mojave Desert.
www.sandiegohistory.org /bio/earp/earp.htm   (373 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Wyatt Earp (1994) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Larger than life and with twice as many brothers, "Wyatt Earp" struts onto the DVD scene in a "Special Edition" that looks stunning but is less filling than one might have expected.
With the long wait for "Wyatt Earp" to appear on DVD, one would have hoped to have a special edition with a commentary from director Lawrence Kasdan, star Costner and a look back at the film's reception when it was first released a decade ago.
It is in-depth biography of legendary Wyatt Earp, the man who "loved to the fullest and fought to the end".
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303269826?v=glance   (2339 words)

  
 Classic TV Western Shows - Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Hugh O'Brian
I'll tell you a story A real true life story A tale of the Western frontier The West it was lawless But one man was flawless And his is the story you'll hear.
Called a "Buntline special" it packs a heck of a wallop and give the Marshal the extra range to drop bad guys, of which there is a never ending supply.
In a five part series finale, Wyatt's brothers Morgan and Virgil, along with Doc Holliday, succeed in dropping the Clanton Gang in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
www.fiftiesweb.com /tv/wyatt-earp.htm   (454 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp Photo Page
Wyatt (center) is flanked by Ed Englestadt on the left and John Clum on the right in this picture taken on the beach in Nome, Alaska in 1901.
Wyatt spent several summers up there during the gold rush where he was part owner of the Dexter Saloon.
Wyatt came to Luke assistance when he was run out of Dodge City in an incident that became known as the Dodge City War.
ferncanyonpress.com /tombston/wyatt/photos.shtml   (1655 words)

  
 Wyatt Earp (1994)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family.
Errors in geography: When Wyatt is bringing a prisoner to jail in Kansas, mountains are visible for a short time behind the buildings (most of the movie was filmed in Las Vegas).
The definitive film of Wyatt Earp has yet to be made.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0111756   (515 words)

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