He worked for the law and helped tame the wild cowboy culture that pervaded the frontier. In Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt got into a feud with a local rancher that resulted in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, perhaps the most famous gunfight in American history. Earp died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929. Wyatt earp changed the wild west law-enforcement forever!
Wyatt had a very strict father and mother. They always went to church on Sunday and they never drank alcohol or smoked. I think his father wanted him to be the best man he could be since Wyatt’s paternal grandfather wanted nothing to do with anyone but himself.
Wyatts grandfather left because he wanted to pursue riches and get gold and silver. Wyatt thought his grandfather was very foolish for doing so. Wyatt was a very good hearted person and he wanted to always help …show more content…
Wyatt always wanted to be the perfect person. the American West grew to be more settled, Earp's place in it became less certain. With his companion, Josephine Marcus, he continued to seek out the success that had eluded him most of his life. He ran saloons in parts of California and in Nome, Alaska, before settling down in Los Angeles. But while he'd reinvented himself as a lawman, the speculative spirit that had driven his father ran in Earp as well. In December 1879, Earp joined his brothers Virgil and Morgan in Tombstone, Arizona, a booming frontier town that had only recently been erected when a speculator discovered the land there contained vast amounts of silver. His good friend Doc Holliday, whom he'd met in Kansas, joined him on his life