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Earp

American  
[urp] / ɜrp /

noun

  1. Wyatt Berry Stapp, 1848–1929, U.S. frontiersman, law officer, and gunfighter.


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"These are devastating injuries that most women don't ever recover from," Earp says.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

His latest report spotlights one manager’s use of a state-owned Ford F-150, with maps of 47 questioned trips and details of purchases like black jelly beans and Wyatt Earp whiskey.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Andrea Russell is a fixture on Earp Street, the quiet strip of rowhouses in South Philadelphia where she has lived for 45 years.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

Nearly all of them wear cowboy hats, looking like a family reunion out of Wyatt Earp days.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2024

The Earp brothers and their followers, as has been said, were ruling Tombstone, and the outlaws had fled into the country east of the Dragoon Mountains.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)

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