He left Dodge in 1879 and moved with brothers James and Virgil to Tombstone, where a silver boom was underway. In the winter of 1878, he went to Texas to track down an outlaw, and met John 'Doc' Holliday, whom Earp credited with saving his life.Įarp moved throughout his life from one boomtown to another. Earp immediately left Wichita, following his brother James to Dodge City, Kansas, where he became an assistant city marshal. He was appointed to the Wichita police force and developed a solid reputation as a lawman, but was fined and 'not rehired as a police officer' after getting into a physical altercation with a political opponent of his boss. In 1874, Earp arrived in the boomtown of Wichita, Kansas, where his reputed wife opened a brothel. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys.
He worked in a variety of trades and took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (Ma– January 13, 1929) was an American law enforcement officer and businessman who worked in several places in the American West, including Dodge City, Kansas and Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
