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Subject: Excerpt Of History
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 17:28:09 EDT
Virgil Earp
Wyatt Earp has received far more attention than his older brother Virgil
Walter Earp, yet Virgil also served as a frontier lawman, and was, in fact, the
city marshal at the time of the so-called Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in
Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Wyatt was acting as Virgil's deputy on October 26,
1881, when the two brothers were joined by a third Earp, Morgan, and
dentist-turned-gambler Doc Holliday for a dramatic walk to a vacant lot where the
Clantons and McLaurys were waiting. Virgil was wounded that day, but it took a
more serious gunshot wound two months later -- during an ambush outside the
Oriental Saloon -- to knock Virgil out of the bloody Tombstone picture once and
for all.
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