Trivia

After the death of his elder brother Virgil Earp on October 19, 1905, he was the last surviving participant of the Gunfight of the O.K. Corral, which took place in Tombstone, Arizona at 3 p.m. on October 26, 1881.

In 1910, when he was 62, the Los Angeles Police Department hired Wyatt and former Los Angeles detective Arthur Moore King at $10.00 per day to carry out various tasks "outside the law" such as retrieving criminals from Mexico, which he did very capably. This led to Wyatt's final armed confrontation.

Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2016, in the category Historical Figure.

Became acquainted with John Wayne, during the actor's early years in Hollywood.

Earp was involved in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. While Wyatt is often depicted as the key figure in the shootout, his brother Virgil was both Deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone City Marshal that day and had considerably more experience in law enforcement as a sheriff, constable, and marshal than did Wyatt. Virgil made the decision to enforce a city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in town and to disarm the Cowboys. Wyatt was only a temporary assistant marshal to his brother.

When a post office was established in 1930 in the unincorporated settlement of Drennan, near the site of some of his mining claims, it was renamed Earp, California in his honor.

Western film stars Tom Mix and William S. Hart were in attendance at Earp's funeral.

More recent biographies have portrayed Wyatt Earp in the following ways: apparently, he was a somber individual who didn't smile much or express much emotion. In addition, he has been described as austere and enclosed.

Was employed as a technical advisor/consultant on several silent Western movies.

Before leaving Tombstone, Earp borrowed a short, 22-inch, 10 gauge, double barrel Spencer percussion shotgun from Fred Dodge, which he used to kill Curly Bill Brocius. Dodge used the shotgun throughout his 40-year career. The gun was later registered to U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas, who in 1896 used the gun to kill outlaw Bill Doolin, a member of the Dalton Gang. It has since passed through several owners, and was last sold in February, 2020, for $375,000.00.

After his death in 1929, Earp's character did not appear in a movie until the famous gunfight was depicted for the first time in the 1932 film Law and Order, although the Wyatt Earp character is named Frame 'Saint' Johnson (Walter Huston). Since then, about 40 other movies have included his character.

Wyatt and Morgan Earp figure prominently in Michael Crichton's novel Dragon Teeth published posthumously in 2017.

Earp was known to carry a .45 caliber revolver, as he did on the night of the Fitzimmons-Sharkey fight in 1896. Historians have credible evidence that Wyatt used a .44 caliber 1869 American model Smith & Wesson during the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. This weapon was given by Earp to John Flood, who left it to Earp historian John D. Gilchriese.

Fifth cousin of Wyatt Earp.

Wyatt Earp's character has been the central figure in 10 films and featured in many more. Among the best-known actors who have portrayed him are Randolph Scott, Guy Madison, Henry Fonda, Joel McCrea, Burt Lancaster, James Garner, Jimmy Stewart, Hugh O'Brian, Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner and Val Kilmer.

Whilst serving as marshal, Earp was known for his harsh methods in enforcing law and order. A lot of the time, he used his fists.

During the 1870s, Wyatt Earp was employed as a shotgun rider for Wells Fargo.

After the Ok Corral incident, some of the citizens of Tombstone turned against Wyatt Earp and that of his brothers Morgan and Virgil.

His last years were spent in California.

Crime novelist Robert B. Parker wrote a dramatization of Wyatt Earp's life entitled Gunman's Rhapsody in 2001.

The popular movie Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, released in 1957, starring Burt Lancaster as Earp, cemented his place in Western history as a hero lawman. The movie also altered the public's perception of cowboys, who in Earp's time and locale were outlaws, but in the movies were reinvented as good guys, assisting the lawmen in their fight against the outlaws.

Earp was depicted in only one film (La Dernière Chevauchée (1923)) while he was alive.

Mentioned in The Deputy (1966).

Wyatt Earp was the last surviving Earp brother and the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral when he died at home in the Earps' small rented bungalow at 4004 W 17th Street, in Los Angeles.

Shortly before his passing, Wyatt Earp had presented a manuscript of his memoirs to biographer Stuart Lake. The biography was published in 1931.

In February, 2010, the earliest known example of Wyatt Earp's signature, found on a February, 1870 Lamar, Missouri subpoena, sold at auction for $14,937.50.

Wyatt Earp was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone.

Apart from being a marshal and gunfighter, he was also a saloon keeper and a businessman in real estate.

Earp's modern reputation suffered in the 1950s when his relationship with Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock, a known prostitute, was revealed.

Although close associates for several years, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday had a disagreement not long after the gunfight at the OK Corral. The reason behind it remains unknown but the two men never spoke to each other again.