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  December 14, 1879 - Johnny Ringo
shot Louis Hancock in the throat at a saloon in Safford.December 1881 - U.S. Marshal Crawley Dake commissioned Wyatt Earp as a Deputy U.S. Marshal by telegraph from Prescott.  December 14, 1881 -
An attempted hijacking of the Benson night stage that contained Mayor John Clum
took place, resulting in his temporary disappearance. It is theorized that
since night stages did not transport valuables or the mails, it can only be
explained as an unsuccessful attempt on the mayor’s life.December 17, 1881- The Tombstone Epitaph received a letter threatening Judge Wells Spicer with death if he did not immediately leave the Tombstone area. The judge, who acquitted the Earp party in the O.K. Corral gunfight, responded by having a statement printed in the next day's paper. He called the perpetrators of the threat “low-bred, arrant cowards,” and refused to be intimidated by them.  December 28, 1881- Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp was
gunned down on Fifth Street, between the Oriental Saloon and the Golden Eagle
Brewery. He survived the attempted murder, but lost the use of his arm after
several inches of it had to be removed because it was shattered by buckshot.
Several members of the cowboy element were suspected in the shooting, but a
trial was never held.December 1883- Five men killed several people during a Bisbee robbery. In February 1884 they were tried and sentenced to hang. |
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois on March 19, 1848. His father named him after a captain that he served under during the Mexican War.
The Earps only lived in this house for about five years before moving to Pella, Iowa when Wyatt was about two years old. There, Wyatt's younger brothers Morgan and Warren were born.
When Wyatt was about 16 years old, the family uprooted again and moved west to San Bernardino, California in 1864, only to return to Iowa and later Lamar, Missouri over the next six years. |
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