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To: goodnesswins

Wyatt Earp shoed up at the Eagle Creek gold rush in Northern Idaho in 1881 and opened a saloon in a tent.

I guess he figgered that was far enough away from Tombstone that none of the Clanton clan or their friends would fnd him there. But maybe not. A few years later that gold rush had played out and it was off to Alaska for the Earps.


12 posted on 03/24/2013 10:00:35 AM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: 43north

“...it was off to Alaska for the Earps.”

As I recall, at some point after Erp returned from Alaska, he stood trial in San Francisco and was aquited. Can’t remember if it was a civil of criminal trial, but it was big news back then.


15 posted on 03/24/2013 10:24:16 AM PDT by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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