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James Earp (1841-1926) -
James
was badly wounded in the
Civil War in 1861, but this did not hinder him
from later serving as a
lawman
in Dodge City,
Kansas. Though
James
moved with his brothers to
Tombstone,
Arizona, he was not involved
in the events of the
O.K. Corral. When
Morgan
was killed, he traveled with
Virgil and the Earp women to Colton,
California for
Morgan's
burial. Later he lived in Shoshone County, Idaho before settling in
permanently in
California in 1890. James Earp died on January,
25th 1926 and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, in
San
Bernardino,
California.
Morgan Earp (1851-1882)
–
Morgan was a marshal in Butte,
Montana
when he killed Billy Brooks. In 1879, he was appointed as a sheriff
in Pima County,
Arizona and a policeman in
Tombstone in 1880. He was
shot and killed by Ike Clanton and four henchmen while playing billiards
on March 18, 1882. Morgan’s body was brought back to
California where he is buried at Hermosa
Cemetery in Colton,
California.
Virgil Earp (1843-1905)
– Appointed as city marshal of
Tombstone,
Arizona in 1880. He quickly gathered his
brothers, who joined him in the frontier town. Ambushed by the
Clanton Gang,
Virgil was shot in the arm in December 1881, which crippled him for life.
Virgil was taken to the family homestead in Colton,
California where he recovered from his wounds. Later he prospected with his wife and, still later, was elected city
marshal of Colton. He then returned to prospecting with his wife
Allie and died of pneumonia in
Goldfield,
Nevada in
1905. Virgil is buried in the Riverview Cemetery in Portland,
Oregon.
 Warren
Baxter Earp (1855-1900)
– The youngest of the
Earp brothers, he joined the others in
Tombstone in 1880, but was not in
the settlement when brothers
Virgil,
Morgan and
Wyatt had the
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Warren later joined
Wyatt in
tracking down the killers of
Morgan Earp in the infamous Earp
Vendetta Ride. Later he served as a stage driver and did some
prospecting in Globe,
Arizona. He then moved to Wilcox,
Arizona and in 1900 got into a drunken fight
with a cowboy named Johnny Boyet. Boyet shot and killed
Warren, who
was unarmed at the time. Boyet was acquitted on grounds of
self-defense, the jury believing that even an Earp without a gun was more
dangerous than most men with a gun in their hand. He is buried in
the Wilcox Pioneer Cemetery in Wilcox,
Arizona.
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 Robert
(Bob) Ford (1861-1892)
-- Bob Ford received a huge reward when he shot
Jesse James
in the head in April 1882. But just ten years later, Ford himself
was shot and killed while running a tent
saloon in Creede,
Colorado on
June 8, 1892. Ford's body was returned to Richmond,
Missouri
where he is interred in the Richmond City Cemetery.
 Geronimo
(1829-1909)
-- The old war leader of the Chircahua
Apaches
died quietly of pneumonia in the post hospital at Fort Sill,
Oklahoma on
February 17, 1909, a few months before his eightieth birthday. He
was buried in the fort’s
Apache
cemetery, but tribal legend says his remains were secretly removed to the
Arizona
Mountains of his childhood.
 John
Wesley (Wes) Hardin
(1853-1895) – Known as
Texas’
most deadly gunman,
Hardin killed over thirty people. Captured by
Texas Ranger John Armstrong in 1877, he was released in 1894 after eighteen
years in prison in 1894. Just one year later,
Hardin was shot and
killed from behind on August 19, 1895 by
John Henry Selman. Selman,
an
outlaw-turned-lawman
had a grudge against
Hardin and surprised him in El Paso’s Acme Saloon. John Selman was himself, gunned down just a year later. Hardin is
buried at the Concordia Cemetery in El Paso,
Texas. Ironically,
Hardin's killer –
John Selman is buried just a few feet away.
James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok (1837-1876)
- Born in Troy Grove,
Illinois,
Hickok
moved to
Kansas
in 1855, where he worked as a constable in Monticello before working as a
a freighter on the
Oregon Trail.
While at the stage station in
Rock Creek,
Nebraska,
he was involved in his first
gunfight
on July 12, 1861, leaving three men dead. Later known as the
McCanles
Massacre, the incident was the first of many that would lead to
Hickok's
fame as a
gunfighter. During the
Civil War, he was employed as a scout for
the Union Army. Afterwards, he held various jobs, but primarily made a
living as a professional gambler. After a poker dispute in
Springfield,
Missouri
he dueled with
David Tutt on July 21, 1865, leaving the man dead in the
street. Later he served as a lawman in Hays City and Abilene,
Kansas,
where he was involved in a number of shooting scrapes. Soon, newspapers
and magazines were printing wildly exaggerated stories of
Hickok's
adventures, making the man a legend in his own time. Perpetuating his
fame,
Hickok
took up with
Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show for a couple of years. Afterwards,
he headed to
Deadwood,
South Dakota ,
where he planned to do some mining. However, during the short time he was
in the booming settlement, he spent the largest majority of his time in
the many gambling halls of the mining camp.
On August
2, 1876,
Wild Bill
Hickok was playing
poker in Nuttall & Mann's #10
Saloon when
he was shot from behind by
Jack McCall.
When his body fell to the floor,
Wild Bill
was found to have been holding
a pair
of black aces and a pair of eights, which has forever since been known as
the "Dead Man's Hand." He was buried in
Deadwood's
cemetery by his friend
Charlie
Utter. More than two decades later,
Calamity
Jane, who had long been infatuated with
Hickok
during his lifetime, requested to be buried next to him. Her last request
was granted when she died on August 2, 1903.
More
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 John
Henry “Doc” Holliday (1852-1887)
-- Doc
Holliday suffered nearly his entire life with tuberculosis. The
disease, itself, was party the reason
Doc turned to gambling and gun
fighting. Trained as a dentist, he could not maintain a practice due
to his wracking cough. After following the
Earps from
Dodge City
and joining in the
O.K. Corral
gunfight, Holliday moved to
Leadville,
Colorado. Late in 1886,
Doc
had dealt with several serious bouts with pneumonia and headed to Glenwood
Springs,
Colorado in hopes that the hot
springs vapors might improve his health. However, he grew worse,
spending his last fifty-seven days in bed. On November 8, 1887, he
awoke clear-eyed and asked for a glass of whiskey. It was given to him and
he drank it down with enjoyment. Then, looking down at his bare feet he
said, "This is funny," and died. He always figured he would be
killed with his boots on.
The Glenwood Springs,
Colorado cemetery sits high upon
a steep hill overlooking the valley below. But at the time of his
death, the steep road was too icy so they buried him at the bottom of the
hill with the intention of moving his body when the ice thawed. But,
they never did. Many years later, a housing development was built at
the base of the hill and though a marker sits in the cemetery, his actual
remains are probably buried in someone’s back yard.
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