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Glenn Boyer Wyatt Earp collection
Photocopied pages from the testimony given regarding the OK Corral Shootout.
About this collection
Glenn G. Boyer (1928-1983) published three books and several smaller publications about Arizona lawman Wyatt Earp, as well as additional American Old West figures. Boyer was the first researcher to reveal that Wyatt Earp had a second wife, Mattie Blaylock. Boyer would go on to write three books about Wyatt Earp's life, all of which would later become part of a controversy when scholars suggested that Boyer would not provide copies of documents he cited as source material. Additionally, one of the individuals Boyer interviewed was later exposed as an invention. Boyer would go on to publish memoirs about Big Nose Kate and released the Flood and Cason manuscripts. After Boyer's death, his family put most of his Wyatt Earp materials, which included over 30 boxes of correspondence, guns, and other ephemera, up for auction. Due to the controversy
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Early Life
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. The third of five sons born to Nicholas and Virginia Ann Earp, he spent his early life in Illinois and Iowa.
As a young teenager, Wyatt repeatedly tried to run away and join his brothers James and Virgil and his half-brother Newton, who fought for the Union during the Civil War; each time he was caught and forced to return home.
At 17, Wyatt left home and found work hauling freight and grading track for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1869, he joined his family in Lamar, Missouri, becoming the local constable after his father resigned the position.
Did you know? The mythic stature of Wyatt Earp as a virtuous lawman and the best gunfighter in the West grew in the decades after his death. He became the subject of numerous TV shows and movies, and has been portrayed by such leading actors as Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster, James Garner, Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner.
In early 1870, Earp married Urilla Sutherl
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Wyatt Earp
American lagens man (1848–1929)
For other uses, see Wyatt Earp (disambiguation).
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Earp at about age 39[1]: 104 | |
| Born | Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-03-19)March 19, 1848 Monmouth, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 13, 1929(1929-01-13) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California |
| Resting place | Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, Colma, California 37°40′33″N122°27′12.1″W / 37.67583°N 122.453361°W / 37.67583; -122.453361 (Wyatt and Josephine Earp's Gravesite) |
| Occupation(s) | Lawman, buffalo hunter, saloon keeper, miner, brothel keeper, boxing referee |
| Years active | 1865–1898 |
| Known for | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral; Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey boxing match decision |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) at age 30 |
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