The fabled Wyatt Earp, credited with spreading law and order in the Wild West, was in reality a complex character who straddled both sides of the law. See more in Season 1, Episode 1, “The Real Wyatt Earp.”
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No talk about Doc Holliday?! Smdh
And here I though Marshal Matt Dillon was the marshal of Dodge City. Who knew? 😏
The “small-town referee” line undersells the mess. On Dec. 2, 1896, at Mechanics’ Pavilion in San Francisco, Earp refereed Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey, called a low blow almost nobody else saw, and awarded the heavyweight fight to Sharkey by eighth-round DQ. The crowd booed him out of the ring. That decision haunted his reputation longer than a lot of the Tombstone stuff.