Biography of Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp, born Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, was born on March 19, 1848 in
Manmouth, Illinois to Nicholas and Virginia Earp. When Wyatt was two, his parents moved him across the Mississippi River to Pella, Iowa. He was considered a great western lawman. His first experience as a lawman was as a constable of Lamar, Missouri for four months in the year 1870. In April, 1875, he was appointed to the Wichita Kansas police force only to be released from that job on April 2, 1876 for insubordination. After that, Wyatt moved to Dodge City, Kansas where he served as a police man three separate times. The first time he served from May 17 until September 9, 1876; the second time he served was from July 6 until
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A very historical event occurred soon after Wyatt took the detective job with
Wells, Fargo & Company; the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. This event is very controversial even today. According to the name of the event, the shutout occurred in the back entrance of the O.K. Corral. Yet, according to the research that I have done, the shootout actually occurred about half a block over from the O.K. Corral in the side yard of ex-mayor William A. Harwood and from there it spread out into the middle of Fremont
Street. Of course, "the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" sounds much better than "the
Gunfight in Harwood's Yard and Fremont Street" so I guess someone decided to change it. "O.K. Corral" has much more of a Western ring to it. Personally, I think "the
Gunfight in Tombstone" sounds pretty good, but there's no point trying to change it now.
Virgil, Wyatt's older brother, was Tombstone's city marshal at the time of the shootout.
He was also a deputy U.S. marshal. At the time of the gunfight, Wyatt considered himself a saloonkeeper, since he had a piece of the gambling winnings at the Oriental
Saloon. This event included four of the Old West's best known law enforcers and also some of the Old West's best known villains . The three Earp brothers; Virgil, Wyatt and
Morgan all participated in the gunfight with "Doc" Holliday at their side. John "Doc"
Holliday was a good friend of Wyatt's plus he had a
George Custer led the Seventh Cavalry in several skirmishes against the Indians in Kansas & Nebraska. In 1868 Phillip Sheridan Replaced Hancock & soon after arranged for Custer’s reinstatement. Custer was suspended for one year because he made a hasty journey to Fort Riley to go see Elizabeth instead of remaining with his troops at Fort Wallace as ordered. Throughout the war he continued to distinguishing himself as fearless,aggressive & ostentatious.
Homestead lockout- many workers got locked out of the union and lost their jobs this was often violent
Striking workers had not committed any violent acts, but their standoff with obstinate planters was heading toward a violent climax on January 14, 1871. For two days in a row, Henry C. Minor—reinforced by the local “colored” sheriff,
While helping the sheriff in Quitman he was lured over the county line by a group of outlaws who ambushed him and shot him in the back. After recovering he returned to newspaper work in Tyler, Texas. He ran his
Tombstone is not only limited to history fans though, it is a very intriguing and fun to watch movie, and most people would enjoy it. I would not recommend this movie to people afraid of violence, because there is a lot of shooting and goriness throughout this film. Tombstone is rated R, so I would also not recommend this to younger people, because of the violence and language. Overall, I really enjoyed watching this film. I felt like I learned a lot about western life, and the violence that occured. All of the scenes were very well done, and I did not get bored while watching. The movie seemed very realistic, especially in the battling scenes. All of the actors in Tombstone did a fascinating job and portrayed their character very well. I also believe the movie was well put together, and all of the different scenes flowed together great. Tombstone was very fun to watch, and I learned a lot while watching it. If I had to rate Tombstone, I would give it 8 stars out of 10. All of the scenes were entertaining, the acting was excellent, there was not an overload of violence, it was realistic, and it was put together very well. Although this movie did have a great deal of good points, it did have its poor ones. At a few points during the movie, I became confused. To be more specific, during the showdown scene, I was confused on who was a cowboy, and who was not. I also grew confused during the scene with
He was elected to the 17th United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1821 – March 4, 1831). He served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary in the 21st United States Congress. He was one of the members in 1830 that were appointed by the House to conduct impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck, who was a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Missouri. Peck was charged with abuse of the contempt power, but was ultimately acquitted. Buchanan did not seek reelection and from 1832 to 1833 he served as Minister to Russia, appointed by Andrew Jackson. When the Federalist Party was no longer viable, Buchanan became a Democrat and as such was elected to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy and served from December 1834; he was reelected in 1837 and 1843, and resigned in 1845 to accept the nomination as Secretary of State by President James K. Polk. He was chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations from 1836 to 1841. After the death of Supreme Court Justice Henry Baldwin in 1844, Polk nominated Buchanan to fill the vacancy in March 1845, but he declined that nomination, as he felt compelled to complete his collaboration on the Oregon Treaty
He was the 18th President of the US from March 4, 1869 - March 4, 1877 the Republican Party.
The Battle of the Alamo was a 13 day siege at a mission in San Antonio that was fought between February 23, 1836 – March 6, 1836 by Mexican forces of about 4000, under President General Santa Anna, against a handful of 180 American rebels fighting for Texan independence from Mexico (american-historama.org). This was a very important war for the Texans, this war decided if the Texans were independent or not. Even though the the Mexicans had control of the Alamo. In 1835 the general of the Mexican soldiers surrendered the mission to the Texan Army (softschools.com).
In the spring of 1874, within eighteen months after his arrival in beautiful Denver, Colorado he was elected City Attorney. On March 4th, 1875, he was elected as a Democrat to be a Delegate from the Colorado Territory to the 44th Congress.
At 4:30 a.m. Ali Frazier approached a group including Tito Jerkson, Billy Ashho and four other people at the corner of 175th Street and Monroe Avenue. Jerkson whom despised Frazier pulled out an automatic rifle from his coat and shot Frazier. About two hours later, during police investigation of the crime scene a series of 911 calls came from an unidentified woman who informed the operator
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The night before the fight Ike Clanton was in a rage about the Earps and Doc. Ike gathered up his brothers and McLaury and walked through the streets asking for a fight. Virgil Earp invited Doc to be a part of the McLaury-Clanton arrest because of Doc’s shooting skills. At the fight Virgil took Doc’s cane and gave Doc a sawed-off shotgun to hide under his coat. After shooting off both barrels of the shotgun, Doc came close to being shot; however, he had his first true friends, the Earps, to cover his back (SV, conj. Adv). Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton died in the fight; Ike filed charges for murder against the Earps and Doc; the Earps and Doc were requested to attend the court case. (SV;SV;SV). Because of Doc’s reputation, it made it difficult for them to win the case, but that didn’t stop them from winning it (Roberts, Doc Holliday, the Earps’ Strangest Ally). Doc was an extremely loyal friend to the Earps. Even after the fight at the Corral, Doc went with Wyatt to track down the people who killed Morgan Earp (Roberts, Brothers of the Gun, Wyatt and Doc). After a while in Tombstone, Doc drifted around a bit until he found his way to Glenwood Springs Colorado. He traveled to Colorado because of its supposed healing hot springs (Holliday, Doc). The springs probably were able to help Doc a little but in the end his tuberculosis was too much for his body to handle. Virgil had this to say of Doc, “…Doc was one of the first to saddle his horse and report
His full name was James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok and he came into this world in 1837 in the state of Illinois in the U.S. He first got notoriety as a gunfighter in 1861 when without any difficulty he shot three men who were trying to kill him. It
He controls the town of Tombstone and implements many laws to help keep the town safe. One of the laws that he implemented was the anti-open carry law which prohibited the carry of firearms in public. He also risked his life in the shootout at the O.K. Corral so he could save the people from danger. However, Wyatt was nowhere near the law abiding angel he was depicted to be in the movie. Wyatt had a history of various kinds of theft and crime including but not limited to: horse theft, involvement in the sex trade and escaping from prison.(Isenberg 46). “Wyatt was arrested three times in Peoria because of his association with the sex trade”(Isenberg 46). His less-than-stellar criminal record forces us to reconsider the validity of his character portrayal as an entirely “good guy.”. The movie does not mention anything about Earps controversial history or run ins with the law. In the movie Tombstone, Wyatt was seen as a preventer of violence, but in reality he had a history of perpetrating it. In a gunfight fight prior to moving to Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt was reported as an “instigator” of violence. According to one of the participants of the gunfight, he did more to provoke the continuation of the gunfight than to end it (Isenberg 180). The historical inaccuracies of the movie continue to show after the Earps move to
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