Wyatt Earp Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Wyatt Earp, a Biography.

Wyatt Earp Essay | Essay

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Wyatt Earp, a Biography

Summary: Provides biographical detail on the life of American lawman and participant in the shootout at the OK Corral, Wyatt Earp.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, in 1848. He was born in Monmouth, Illinois and then lived on a farm in Ohio.

In 1846 he moved in with his parents in California. Wyatt Earp throughout the years was a stagecoach driver, buffalo hunter, and then worked as a deputy marshal in Wichita, Kansas and Dodge City. Later on in his years living in Kansas Earp became friends with Bat Materson and Doc Holliday, and that is where he got his reputation as a lawman and a gambler.

Wyatt had three wives through his years, his first wife died, and his second wife, there marriage didn't last, then the third wife named, Josie. Wyatt and Josie ran the saloon in Nome Alaska during the Alaska Gold Rush. In 1901 they moved to a gold strike in Tonopah, Nevada, where saloon, gambling and mining interests were profitable.

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