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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Titanic Thompson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Soapy Smith, George E. Smith, Bat Masterson, Anthony Cornero, Pat Hearne, Edward R. Bradley, Frank Scoblete, Charles Stoneham, Chip Taylor, Bernard de Marigny, Frank Rosenthal, Roy Walford, John Scarne, Charles Miller, Joseph Vincent Moriarty, Jonathan H. Green, Lottie Deno, Red Berry, James Patrick O'Leary, John Daly, Reed Waddell, Stanford Wong, Warren Earp, Don Laughlin, Tony Tarracino, Semyon Dukach, Mike McCluskie, Joseph J. Sullivan, Reuben Parsons, Canada Bill Jones, Awful Gardner, William Busteed, Eudaemons, Dan Allen, Hank Vaughan, Albert Hibbs, Mike O'Rourke, Tom Pickett, Manny Kimmel, King Yao, Rose Hamburger, Charlie Storms, Joseph Lowe, William Nelson Darnborough, Ed Beard, George "Hump" McManus. Excerpt: Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 - January 13, 1929) was an American gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer who served in several Western frontier towns. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, bouncer, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. He is most well known for his part in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral during which three outlaw Cowboys were killed. The 30-second gunfight would define the rest of his life. Earp's modern-day reputation is that of Old West's "toughest and deadliest gunman of his day." Earp spent his early life in Iowa. After his first wife, Urilla Sutherland Earp, died he was arrested, sued twice, escaped from jail, and was arrested three times for "keeping and being found in a house of ill-fame." He landed in the cattle boomtown of Wichita, Kansas where he became a deputy marshal for one year and developed a solid reputation as a lawman. In 1876 he followed his brother James to Dodge City, Kansas where he became an assistant marshal. In the winter of 1878 he went to Texas to gamble where he met John Henry...