Wyatt Earp Quotes


The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.


Citations

Lake, Stuart N. Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. Houghton Mifflin, 1931, p. 39.

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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp
  • Born: March 19, 1848
  • Died: January 13, 1929
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Lawman, Buffalo Hunter, Saloon Keeper, Miner, Boxing Referee, Gambler, Brothel Keeper

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American law enforcement officer and businessman who worked in several places in the American West, including Dodge City, Kansas and Tombstone, Arizona Territory. He worked in a variety of trades and took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys.