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Our first Event: Always remember Wyatt Earp

Updated: Dec 10, 2019

8 participants has joined this very first event: Def13, JonathanGett, Luq B1, Remi_R, UncleCatOK, Yumeharu, Caninski_Jen and brokka.



It was an interesting race. Luq B1 won against Yumeharu in the first match but lost in the second match against Def13. Def13 won against UncleCatOK in the first match and in the second match against Luq B1. JonathanGett won in the first match against brokka and won in the second match against Remi_R. Remi_R won in the first match against caninski_jen but lost against JonathanGett in the second match.


The final battle was between Def13 and JonathanGett. But there could be only 1 winner and the winner was.... Def13! He shall always be remembered as Wyatt Earp.


Speaking of Wyatt Earp , who was he anyways?

 

Little biography


Wyatt Earp (born March 19, 1848, Monmouth, Illinois, U.S.—died January 13, 1929, Los Angeles, California), legendary frontiersman of the American West, who was an itinerant saloonkeeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, and confidence man but was perhaps best known for his involvement in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881). The first major biography, Stuart N. Lake’s Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal (1931), written with Earp’s collaboration, established the rather fictionalized portrait of a fearless lawman.


Earp was the fourth of eight children born to Nicholas Earp and his second wife, Virginia Ann Cooksey. His four brothers—James (1841–1926), Virgil (1843–1905), Morgan (1851–82), and Warren (1855–1900)—as well as a half-brother, Newton, would play integral roles throughout Wyatt’s life. He grew up in Illinois and Iowa but in 1864, toward the end of the American Civil War, his family moved to an area near San Bernardino, California. In 1868 most of the Earps returned to Illinois via the Union Pacific Railroad, on which Wyatt and Virgil lingered to work in what is now Wyoming.

The following year Wyatt rejoined his family, which had moved to Lamar, Missouri. There he married in 1870 and was elected local constable. However, following his pregnant wife’s death, he entered a turbulent period, marked by numerous run-ins with the law. Facing allegations of embezzlement, he left Lamar in 1871, and later that year he was arrested for stealing horses in Indian Territory but was never tried; sources differ on whether he escaped from jail or jumped bail. He eventually settled in Peoria, Illinois, where he was arrested for various offenses, most of which concerned his involvement with brothels. After moving to Wichita, Kansas, in 1874, he continued to work in prostitution establishments—most likely as a bouncer—and was again arrested on several occasions. However, he later worked as a police officer, first in Wichita (1875–76) and later in Dodge City (1876–77), before heading off to the gold rush in the Black Hills (1877–78). He then returned to Dodge City as assistant marshal (1878–79), and there he became noted as both a lawman and a gambler. During this time he befriended such gunmen as Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson.

Leaving Dodge City, he went to New Mexico Territory and then California, working for a time as a Wells Fargo guard. In 1879 he moved to the Wild West town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, where most of the Earp family had congregated, buying real estate and businesses. Wyatt became a gambler and a guard in a saloon, and his brother Virgil became town marshal.


By 1881 a feud had developed between the Earps and an outlaw gang led by Ike Clanton. The conflict resulted in the celebrated gunfight at the O.K. Corral (October 26, 1881), pitting the Clanton gang against three Earp brothers (Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan) and Doc Holliday. Three of the outlaws were killed, but Ike and another member escaped. Although the shoot-out, which allegedly lasted only 30 seconds, later made Wyatt famous, various reports indicate that Virgil played a more central role. The gunfight, however, failed to end the feud.

In December 1881 Virgil was ambushed—allegedly by Clanton and his colleagues—though he survived his gunshot wounds. However, in March 1882 Morgan was fatally shot while playing billiards. Looking for revenge, Wyatt, his brother Warren, and some friends went in search of the assailants and subsequently killed at least two suspects, including Frank Stilwell. Wyatt was accused of murder, and he fled, moving first to Colorado, then to several boomtowns in the West, and eventually to California. He settled there, where he supported himself variously by police work, gambling, mining, and real-estate deals.

He assisted Stuart N. Lake on the biography Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal (1931), which helped establish Earp as a legend, though many of his claims were later revealed to be exaggerated or untrue. He was also the subject of numerous movies and other books that furthered his mythical status. Notable films include My Darling Clementine (1946), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Tombstone (1993), and Wyatt Earp (1994).




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