Skip to content. My Account Blog. Sheriff Johnny Behan keeps his posse stocked with cowboys. But even with the help of expert tracker Jack Stilwell, the men are unsuccessful in finding the Earps. Post Views: 18, Related Posts. More than 40 actors have portrayed Wyatt Earp, but few have even slightly resembled him. Where did he kill Ringo? Wyatt put Ringo at the base of some oaks close to the old wagon road so he could be found.
How many men did Wyatt kill? We know for sure that he participated with others in the shooting in Dodge City of George Hoy, whose wound led to amputation of an arm and then to his death.
Wyatt killed another man in Indian Territory. Later, Frank Stilwell bought it at the train station in Tucson. I have read number numerous autobiographies, historical accounts, and other books abort out Wyat Erp. As a representative of the law he far, far more often than not did everything in his power to avoid gun played saving scores of lives by doing so.
When acctually engaging in gun play, he was so fast either right or left handed, and such a good shot that he avoided killing criminals who pressed him into gun fights by either ambushing him or pressing to meet. Their elbow, or their wrist. In this way he turned those who were cold blooded killers into much less capable shooters and killers with hand guns than they had been.
There were a relative small number of instances like the OK Corral where shooting to kill could not be avoided. But again, in the vast majority of "showdowns" he either avoided shooting, or wounded those he came up against. Undoubtedly, if he was a cold blooded killer, or someone seeking a high body count he could have obtained it..
The relatives of those killed would almost invariably in those days seek revenge killings therby defeating his goal of making the towns he worked in safer and more peaceful and up holding of law and order. Making a huge name for himself with scores of killings would have also invariable invited every outlaw who themselves sought such accounts for themselves to come wherever Erp worked to try and say they had "knocked him off" once again, thereby defeating his own goal for law and order.
These things are simply the truth for his career in Whichita, Dodge City, and Tombstone. For several years after he quit his law career, he did, himself become a vigilante chasing down and killing several of the plannning members of the two families of those involved in the OK Corral and its following feud. In those accounts as far as I have been able to research, he only killed those involved with planning and carry out the murders who had escaped justice and mostly fled to far flung hide outs and places where local law enforcement was not interested in risking their personnel rooting out and finding those involved in those crime which lay far outside of their area of Jurisdiction.
But once he had completed that effort he retired peacefully for several decades with his wife who was by far his most long standing, Josephine Sarah Marcus married , married 47 years in California, him dying at a ripe old age of 80 years old in Los Angeles. The vendetta ride was just that. A vendetta. Pay back for Morgan and Virgil Earp.
Indian Charlie was killed at the Spence homestead; but Spence was in jail at the time. However the accounts of the death of Frank Stillwell at the Tucson rail station do leave questions. Earp himself claims he shot Stillwell while the later tried to push the barrel of his shotgun away.
All other witnesses claim both Ike Clinton and Stillwell were fleeing the scene when Stillwell stumbled allowing Earp to catch him. Both the Stillwell and Indian Charlie killings have the eerie similarities of men fleeing the Earp posse only to be gunned down. It was said Indian Charlie's body was riddled with bullets.
In repayment for this act, he participated in the vendetta ride. Hogan has an educated grasp that's reinforced by all my studies of the crooked lawman and his vagrant, immoral life. John Wayne is the principal fool in this story. Raising a failed hoodlum to a Hollywood fantasy. But John was an actor looking for a role to sell. Truth had nothing to do with acting. If John were alive, he'd play a great trump. The Earp brothers and their friend Doc Holliday claimed afterwards that they were trying to disarm the cowboys, who were illegally carrying firearms when the cowboys opened fire.
The surviving cowboys alleged that they were fully cooperating and had even raised their hands in the air when the lawmen started indiscriminately shooting them at point blank range. Alliances were strong in the small town—newspapers were not above taking sides, and witnesses of the scuffle gave conflicting testimony.
To further complicate matters, the transcript of the ensuing murder trial was destroyed in a fire. All in all, we may never know for sure who provoked the shootout. Wyatt Earp went down in history as the central figure of the gunfight. In reality, his brother Virgil was far more experienced than him in combat and shootout situations. Virgil had served in The Civil War and had a long career in law enforcement compared to Wyatt, who had a shorter stint in law enforcement and was even fired from one position.
Riddled with exaggerations, to the point that it was more fiction that actual biography, the book portrayed Wyatt as the deadliest and most feared shooter in the Old West. Another contributing factor to his notoriety was the fact that unlike his fellow lawmen in the O. Nor was he harmed in any of the ensuing fights. His close calls in the face of death only added to his mystique. Which brings us to our next point ….
Tension was simmering between the cowboys and the Earps long before gunfire erupted. Naturally, the fact that the Cochise County Cowboys made their living through smuggling and thievery ruffled a few feathers with town marshal Virgil Earp.
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