Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. The Earp Vendetta Ride was a search by Deputy U. S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, leading a federal posse, for outlaw Cowboys they believed had ambushed and maimed Virgil Earp. The old cemetery boasts graves of Clantons, McLaurys and other legendary Tombstone charactersnot to mention some of the worlds most famous and funny epitaphs. The Bird Cage Theatre Tombstone AZ. Resident ghosts are said to haunt the bulletriddled Bird Cage Theater, Self Guided Tours, and Nightly Ghost Tours are Available. 1882 MDCCCLXXXII was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1882nd year of the. Earp Vendetta Ride Wikipedia. Earp Vendetta Ride. Wyatt Earp began the search for the Cowboys who ambushed Virgil Earp in Charleston, Arizona Territory. Date. March 2. 0 to April 1. Location. Cochise County, Arizona Territory, United States. Participants. Wyatt, Warren, and James Earp Doc Holliday, Sherman Mc. Master, Jack Turkey Creek Johnson, Charles Smith, Dan Tipton, and John Vermillion vs. Johnny Behan, Frank Stilwell, Pete Spence, Ike Clanton, Florentino Cruz, Curly Bill Brocius, Frederick Bode, Pony Diehl, Johnny Barnes, Frank Patterson, Milt Hicks, Bill Hicks, Bill Johnson, Ed Lyle, and Johnny Lyle. Outcome. Four Cowboys killed arrest warrants issued for Earps and Holliday, who leave Arizona for good. Deaths. Frank Stilwell, Florentino Cruz, Curly Bill Brocius, and Johnny Barnes. The Earp Vendetta Ride was a search by Deputy U. S. Marshal. Wyatt Earp, leading a federal posse, for outlaw. Cowboys they believed had ambushed and maimed Virgil Earp and killed Morgan Earp. The Earp brothers had been attacked in retaliation for the deaths of three Cowboys in the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral on October 2. From March 2. 0 to April 1. Cochise County, Arizona Territory for suspects in both Virgils and Morgans attacks. Several suspects had been freed by the court, owing in some cases to legal technicalities and in others to the strength of alibis provided by Cowboy confederates. Up to this point, Wyatt had relied on the legal system to bring the Cowboys to justice. Now he felt he had to take matters into his own hands. 1On March 2. Morgans murder, Wyatt, his brothers Warren and James, Doc Holliday, and two other deputies were escorting Virgil and his wife Allie to a California bound train in Benson. They learned that suspects Ike Clanton and Frank Stilwell were already in Tucson. Wyatt changed plans and stayed with Virgil through to Tucson. After Virgil boarded the train that night, Wyatt spotted two men near the train that he thought were Clanton and Stilwell. He and several men chased Stilwell down and killed him. The other person got away. After Stilwells body was found the next morning, the Tucson Justice of the Peace issued warrants for the arrest of the five men suspected of shooting him. When the lawmen returned to Tombstone, Cochise County Sheriff. Johnny Behan got a telegram notifying him of the Tucson warrants. He attempted to detain the five members of Earps federal posse sought by the warrants, but they ignored him. Carrying arrest warrants for Curly Bill Brocius and others, they left Tombstone to find the Cowboys implicated in the attacks. Behan formed a Cochise County sheriffs posse consisting of deputies. Phineas Clanton, Johnny Ringo, and about twenty other Cowboys and Arizona ranchers. Based on the local warrants, they followed the Earp posse and set out to arrest the five men. The large sheriffs posse came close to but never engaged the much smaller Earp posse. The latter received help from local businessmen and ranchers, and at one point, published a letter in a Tombstone newspaper taunting Behan and his men. The federal posse ultimately killed four men. These deaths started with the shooting of Stilwell and ended with the killing of Brocius. On about April 1. Earps and some of their associates rode out of Arizona Territory and headed for New Mexico Territory. BackgroundeditAfter a long simmering feud and increasing animosity and threats, Tombstone town Marshal Virgil Earp, Assistant Town Marshal Morgan Earp, and temporary deputy marshals Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday confronted outlaw. Cowboys. Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank Mc. Laury in the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral on October 2. The 3. 0 second gunfight is generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Wild West. The lawmen killed three of the Cowboys during the gunfight. Ike Clanton filed murder charges, and after a month long preliminary hearing, Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer found that the lawmen had acted within their duty. But Spicers finding did not end the matter for Clanton and other Cowboys. Attempted murder of Virgil EarpeditAt about 1. December 2. 8, 1. Gunfight at the O. K. Corral, three men ambushed Virgil Earp as he walked from Schieffelin Hall back to the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where the Earps had moved for mutual support and protection. 2 He was hit in the back and upper left arm by about 2. Dr. George Goodfellow, who treated him, had to remove 5. Wyatt, believing that Virgil was dying, the next day telegraphed Crawley Dake, U. S. Marshal for the Arizona Territory, for authority for a posse VIRGIL EARP WAS SHOT BY CONCEALED ASSASSINS LAST NIGHT. HIS WOUNDS ARE FATAL. TELEGRAPH ME APPOINTMENT WITH POWER TO APPOINT DEPUTIES. LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE DOING NOTHING. THE LIVES OF OTHER CITIZENS ARE THREATENED. WYATT EARP3Commenting on Earps request to Dake, the Weekly Arizona Miner wrote on December 3. Earps and others. For some time, the Earps, Doc Holliday, Tom Fitch and others who upheld and defended the Earps in their late trial have received, almost daily, anonymous letters, warning them to leave town or suffer death, supposed to have been written by friends of the Clanton and Mc. Lowry boys, three of whom the Earps and Holliday killed and little attention was paid to them as they were believed to be idle boasts but the shooting of Virgil Earp last night shows that the men were in earnest. 4Wyatt deputizes posseeditDake replied affirmatively by telegraph, and Deputy U. S. Marshal Wyatt Earp deputized Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, Sherman Mc. Master, Jack Turkey Creek Johnson, Charlie Hairlip Charlie Smith, Daniel Tip Tipton, and John Texas Jack Vermillion to protect the family and pursue the suspects, paying them 5. Mc. Master and Johnson were known as tough men who knew how to use their guns. Mc. Master had seen service with the Texas Rangers in 1. Curly Bill Brocius prisoner for five months. In Tombstone, Mc. Master had also been accused of stealing U. S. Army mules and robbing a stage with outlaw Charles Pony Diehl. Fluent in Spanish, Mc. Master used his inside knowledge of the Cowboys to assist the Earps in their search. He also liked fine horses. 3Jack Turkey Creek Johnson, whose real name according to Wyatt Earp was John William Blount, was a native of Missouri who was raised in the lead mining area of Neosho. Blount was forced to flee Missouri in 1. In Arizona during May 1. Bud killed a man in a quarrel in Tip Top, Arizona Territory, and was sent to Yuma Territorial Prison. John Blount adopted the alias Jack Johnson and went to Tombstone seeking Wyatt Earps help to get his brother pardoned. Wyatt helped by writing a petition to Governor Fremont, whom Wyatt knew, and Bud Blount was eventually freed. As a way to repay his debt, Johnson joined the posse. 3Charlie Smith had a long time connection to the Earp family, and was fluent in Spanish after spending several years in Texas working in saloons. While in Fort Worth he had been associated with barman James Earp,3 and participated in at least two gunfights there, and was seriously wounded in 1. Arriving in Tombstone in 1. Robert J. Winders, Smith immediately became associated with the Earps. Winders and the Earps partnered on the Mountain Maid mine. 3Daniel Tip Tipton arrived in Tombstone in March 1. He had a shady reputation earned during the early days of the mining boom in Virginia City, Nevada Territory.
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