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Virgil Walter Earp (Hartford, 8 luglio 1843 – Goldfield, 19 ottobre 1905) è stato un pistolero statunitense, fratello maggiore del famoso sceriffo e pistolero Wyatt Earp.
Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905) was an American lawman. He was both deputy U.S. Marshal and City Marshal of Tombstone, Arizona, when he led his younger brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday, in a confrontation with outlaw Cowboys at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881.
At about 1:00 p.m., Marshal Virgil and his Deputy Morgan Earp found Ike on Fourth Street, still armed, and Virgil pistol whipped him from behind. Disarming him, the Earps took Ike to appear before Justice of the Peace A.O. Wallace for violating the ordinance.
- Virgil Earp’s Life Before Becoming A Wild West Lawman
- Virgil Earp Becomes A U.S. Marshal
- Earp Heads to Tombstone and Trouble Starts Brewing with The Clanton Cowboys
- The Gunfight at The O.K. Corral
- Virgil Earp Is Wounded in The Aftermath of The Shootout
- Virgil Earp’s Last Years and Lingering Legend
Virgil Earp was born on July 18, 1843, in Hartford, Kentucky. He was one of nine children and the second-oldest son of Nicholas Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey. Fearing for their lives ahead of the Civil War, the Earps moved to Monmouth, Illinois, and it was there that Virgil met Ellen Rysdam. The pair married in secret in September of 1861 because 1...
By 1877, Virgil Earp seemed to have settled into a quiet life with his wife Allie and was running a sawmill outside Prescott. While downtown in Prescott in October of that same year, Earp was roped into a gunfight. He, U.S. Marshal William W. Standefer, Yavapai County Sheriff Ed Bowers had been talking downtown when two trouble-making sharpshooters...
While working as a constable in Prescott, Earp became close to U.S. Marshal Dake Crawley, and when Virgil Earp headed off for Tombstone, Arizona in 1879, Crawley appointed him deputy U.S. marshal for the Tombstone area. Tombstone became a boomtown when prospectors found silver. But as hard working miners moved in, so did criminals. A hard-nosed law...
On October 25, 1881, Ike Clanton came riding into Tombstone alongside was his friend, Tom McLaury. Legend has it Clanton was talking out of his head and drunk at a saloon when he bragged he was going to kill one of the Earp brothers. Doc Holliday took offense and challenged Clanton to a duel. The cattle rancher declined but on October 26, 1881, Bil...
Tensions flared after that. Cowboys were not only vital to the economy of Tombstone, but they also offered protection along the outskirts of town. Ike Clanton was incensed. He pressed murder charges against the Earps but a federal judge cleared the lawmen a month after the shootout. Clanton took matters into his own hands. In December, Virgil Earp ...
Wyatt spent the rest of his days in Arizona seeking vengeance in the countryside against anyone who had anything to do with his brother’s death. Virgil Earp and his younger brother, James, took Morgan’s body west to California where he was buried in Colton. Virgil Earp opened his own detective agency in Colton, and on July 2, was elected constable ...
- William Delong
“Virgil Earp was known as one of the most daring and adventurous of Western pioneers, and he was known from North to South on the Pacific Coast as one of the great-hearted men who helped to build the West.” – The Oregonian, October 30, 1905.
26 mar 2020 · On December 28, 1881, Virgil Earp was ambushed and shot in the back on his way home. His injuries left him alive, but seriously injured. In March of the following year, Morgan Earp was...
23 mar 2018 · Although he was a first-rate lawman and stood tall during that deadly gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Virgil Earp will forever be known as Wyatt’s older brother.
