Wyatt Earp: Wyatt EARP Family History

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Wyatt Earp was a famous law enforcement officer in the 1800s with a full name of Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp. He was born on March 19, 1848 at 406 South Third Street Monmouth, Illinois as the third child of Nicholas and Virginia Ann Earp’s five children. Wyatt Earp’s mother and father gave him the name derived from Nicholas’ army captain during the Mexican War from April 25, 1846 through February 2, 1848. Wyatt Earp had five brothers named Warren, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Newton and four sisters called Adelia, Martha, Virginia, and Mariah. His father, Nicholas Porter Earp, was a man who enjoyed drinking while never being emotional around friends or family due to years serving in the army ("Wyatt EARP Family History." Wyatt EARP Family History: Old West Kansas Families).
Nicholas was stubborn, yet he was not very greedy. He had no goals to get rich quick unlike his father. Nicolas’ father …show more content…
There, the Earps continuously fought with a loose coalition of outlaws who went by the name “The Cowboys”. Wyatt, Virgil, and their younger brother Morgan held various law enforcement positions that put them in conflict with Tom and Frank McLaury, and Ike and Billy Clanton, who threatened on several different occasions to kill the Earps. The conflict heightened over the next year, culminating on October 26, 1881 in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in which the Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, and Doc Holliday killed three of the Cowboys. During the next six months, Virgil was ambushed and mutilated. Morgan was also killed in a successful assassination just shortly after his older brother Virgil was surrounded. Pursuing a blood vengeance, Wyatt, his brother Warren, Doc Holliday, and others formed a posse that executed three of the Cowboys whom they believed were responsible for the deaths of Virgil and Morgen ("Wyatt Earp."
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