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Holliday moved to Dodge City in June 1878 and saved Earp's life in August. There he took a job in 1865 with the Banning Stage Line, driving the hazardous sixty miles between San Bernardino and Los Angeles.

The gunfight occurred on the morning of October 26, 1881, on Fremont Street beside the home of W.A. Harwood, which was located directly in back of the O.K.

Corral.^[7]

From heroes to defendants

On October 30, Ike Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Holliday. Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury, and Frank McLaury were killed. The incident, while nonviolent, damaged the Clantons' reputations and convinced the Earps that the Clantons were horse thieves. Wyatt married his first wife, Urilla Sutherland, on January 10, 1870, in Lamar, Missouri.

Glenn W. Boyer.

Wyatt testified that he and Billy Clanton began the fight after Clanton and Frank McLaury drew their pistols, and Wyatt shot Frank in the stomach while Billy shot at Wyatt and missed.^[15]

The unarmed Ike Clanton escaped the fight unwounded, as did the unarmed Billy Claiborne. His past affairs in Tombstone came to light once again, as the public attempted to scrutinized and evaluate his character.^[20]

In the fall of 1897, Earp and Josie chased another gold rush to Alaska.

Morgan was hit in the lower back while a second shot hit the wall just over Wyatt's head. This was a federal matter because the animals were federal property. Retrieved September 8, 2007.

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All links retrieved May 20, 2023. However, on December 16, the grand jury decided not to reverse Spicer's decision.

Wyatt returned to Monmouth looking for his father, but soon was headed to Missouri because his father had relocated once again. It may be presumed from Earp's discussion of the problem in Lake's pseudobiography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (published after Wyatt's death) that Wyatt never carried a single-action with six rounds again.

Earp later testified that he made a deal with Behan that if he (Earp) withdrew his application, Behan would name Earp as undersheriff if he won. Retrieved September 8, 2007.