Earp, Wyatt

Cultural  

1. A law officer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served as the United States marshal in Dodge City, Kansas, and took part in a famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881.

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Example Sentences

"Wyatt Earp" - Wyatt Earp becomes a broken-hearted widower and then moves to Tombstone, where as a gunslinger and law enforcer he shoots up the outlaw Cowboys.

From Seattle Times

Mishaela Faucher, as the young Josephine, and Stephanie Palumbo, as the young Allie Earp, Wyatt’s sister-in-law, move things along nicely.

From New York Times

Virgil Earp, Wyatt�s older brother, lost the use of an arm when he was shot from an ambush.

From Time Magazine Archive