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Earp, Wyatt

  1. A law officer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served as the United States marshal in Dodge City, Kansas , and took part in a famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona , in 1881.


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By now, most Americans have learned what they know of Wyatt Earp from the screen.

Wyatt Earp remained alone out in the middle of the main street just below the corner.

Wyatt Earp shifted his shotgun into his two hands and held it as a trap-shooter who is waiting for the clay pigeons to rise.

Next to Wyatt Earp he ranked as the highest in the faction that was ruling Tombstone.

Mr. Holiday and Wyatt Earp, at a road-gait, took the trail for Tucson.

The morning found Mr. Holiday and Wyatt Earp in the saddle, their belts heavy with cartridges, war-bags bulging with provant.

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