Wyatt Earp

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another small mystery in the life of . At least two references, Editor Glenn Boyer's comments in Josie Earp's memoirs states that Urilla died in childbirth. I married , page 38, note 4 Bob Boze Bell notes the same on page 19 of his book, "The Illustrated Life and Times of ". But in Lake's 1931 book, ", Frontier Marshal", he notes very briefly on page 29 that Urilla died in a Typhoid epidemic. In the 1994 A&E Network documentary, ", Justice at the OK Corral", Doctor Paul A. Hutton, Professor, University of New Mexico, echoes the same cause of a death. One could postulate that perhaps complications of Typhoid caused Urilla to die in childbirth. Unless some author or researcher is able to locate a death certificate for Urilla Earp, the official cause of death may never be known.
Wyatt's further life in Lamar is another who-done-it. Wyatt's cousin Everitt, several times, made comments in his later years suggesting that Wyatt had a shady past in Lamar. He is the one who claimed that after ...

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of the law in Fort Smith, Arkansas in or about May of 1871. During that time, a "true bill" was returned by the Grand Jury of the United States Court of the Western District of Arkansas on the charge of larceny. Wyatt was charged with horse thievery in the Indian Nations. See The Illustrated Life and Times of , page 19, for more details on this charge. An unknown person paid Wyatt's bail and he skipped town. His fears may have been unfounded though, for Ed Kennedy, an alleged accomplice of Earp's in that theft, was found not guilty in the charge.

Shortly thereafter Wyatt tried his hand at Buffalo hunting. It was during this time that Wyatt Earp probably met a younger and ...

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