Virgil Earp: Western Peace Officer - Softcover

Chaput, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080612881X ISBN 13: 9780806128818

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The exploits of Wyatt Earp have overshadowed those of his brothers. This work looks at the life of Virgil Earp, who led the Earp gang to the gunfight at the OK Corral. Most records of his life stop here, but this book examines the rest of his life as peace officer, gambler, politician and rancher.

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The exploits of Wyatt Earp, real or otherwise, always have overshadowed those of his brothers. Now, for the first time, Donald Chaput removes the eldest brother, Virgil Earp, from that shadow and tells in detail the story of the real leader of the Earp clan. As a peace officer in Prescott, Arizona, Virgil experienced his first street shootout, and it was there he met his future nemesis, Johnny Behan. In 1880 Virgil's brothers joined him in Tombstone, Arizona. Acting as both the town marshal of Tombstone and a U.S. deputy marshal, he led the Earp gang to the fateful gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Most records of Virgil Earp stop here, but Chaput fleshes out the rest of Virgil's life in California, Nevada, and other western states as a peace officer, gambler, miner, Republican politician, and rancher.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080612881X
• ISBN 13: 9780806128818
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar