Brief

Wyatt Earp was known as a Western lawman, gunfighter, and boxing referee. After his death, he had a notorious reputation for both his handling of the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight and his role in the O.K. Corral gunfight. This perception began to change after an extremely flattering biography was published in 1931. It became a bestseller and created his reputation as a fearless lawman. Since then, Earp has been the subject of numerous films, television shows, biographies, and works of fiction that have increased the myth surrounding the man.  One of Earp’s modern-day reputations is that of the Old West’s “toughest and deadliest gunman of his day.

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Brother of Virgil and Morgan Earp and later joined by “Doc” Holliday, this group were adversaries and struggled for power with the Clintons and Mclaurys in the notorious mining town of Tombstone Arizona. Several altercations took place between them until it all came to a head in a gunfight on Fremont Street near the ‘OK’ corral. This piece portrays Wyatt Earp visually locking on to his foe and the rest is history.