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The Earps, particularly Wyatt, followed a couple of years later with dreams of cashing in on the silver boom.
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He had been drinking the night before and into the morning, and was going around town threatening to kill the Earps the next time he saw them.
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The Earps and Holliday, Spicer ruled, saw at once the dire necessity of giving the first shot to save themselves from certain death.
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The Earps may have won the national public relations battle, but they were essentially finished in Tombstone.
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Lake's flattering and deeply flawed biography of the same title, continuing with John Ford's My Darling Clementine in 1946 and Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp in 1994 — the Earps have come across as straight-shooting, law-and-order types.
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The 1881 encounter between the Earps and the Clantons in Tombstone, Ariz., has been retold countless times already: as myth, as romance, as epic, as psychosexual drama.
New Tales of the Old West Lee Sandlin 2011
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In the photo --- was it Bat Materison and a couple of the Earps?
David E. 2009
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The trouble is ... put it like this ... if I set a book in Tombstone, around about the time of Wyatt Earp, and I'd put in the Earps and the Clanceys and horses and cacti and silver mines, if I put in one lousy dragon, they'd call it a fantasy book.
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In the photo --- was it Bat Materison and a couple of the Earps?
David E. 2009
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But the overall focus is still very much on the Earps and Holliday.
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