In 1877, after a brief time chasing the Gold Rush in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory, Wyatt returned to Dodge City and was made City Marshal. It was said that Doc had stepped in to save Wyatt's life in a bar room incident. It was in Dodge City that Earp would make the acquaintance of Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday, a well-known gunman and gambler. ![]() Later he would become Deputy Town Marshal of Dodge City helping to keep the Cowboys (local outlaws) in line. But after helping a police officer in Wichita, Kansas track down a wagon thief, Earp joined that city’s police force in 1875. Devastated, he sold his newly bought house and left town to move around the Indian Territory and Kansas.ĭuring this turbulent period, Earp frequented the saloons, gambling houses and brothels that proliferated on the frontier, and had several run-ins with law enforcement. Within the year his wife died of typhoid while pregnant with their first child. ![]() There he married Urilla Sutherland in 1870 and was elected local constable. In 1869, he joined his family in Lamar, Missouri. At 17, Wyatt left home and found work hauling freight and grading track for the Union Pacific Railroad. The third of five sons born to Nicholas and Virginia Ann Earp, he spent his early life in Illinois and Iowa. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. He was a saloonkeeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, and confidence man but was perhaps best remembered for his participation in the notorious Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881. Probably the most famous US Marshal to arise in the colorful American 19th century western frontier was Wyatt Earp. Your model of the US Marshal is based on these Old West examples. ![]() Individual Deputy Marshals have been seen as legendary heroes in the face of frontier rampant lawlessness such as Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Dallas Stoudenmire, and Bass Reeves. Marshals were also authorized to swear in a posse to assist with manhunts, and other duties. From the nation's earliest days, Marshals were permitted to recruit special Deputies as local hires. During the settlement of the American Frontier, marshals served as the main source of day-to-day law enforcement in areas that had no local government of their own. President George Washington signed the Judiciary Act into law on September 24, 1789. The office of United States Marshal was created by the First Congress. Comes packaged in the classic Aurora style long box.
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