

Earp immediately left Wichita, following his brother James to Dodge City, Kansas, where he became an assistant city marshal. He was appointed to the Wichita police force and developed a solid reputation as a lawman, but was fined and "not rehired as a police officer" after getting into a physical altercation with a political opponent of his boss. In 1874, Earp arrived in the boomtown of Wichita, Kansas, where his reputed wife opened a brothel. Marshal that day, and had far more experience in combat as a sheriff, constable, marshal, and soldier. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother Virgil was the Tombstone City and Deputy U.S. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (Ma– January 13, 1929) was a gambler and Old West lawman in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone.
