The legacy of Wyatt Earp - respected lawman, vigilante, gambler, pimp

A few years before his death, Wyatt Earp wrote to a friend, saying, "Notoriety has been the bane of my life. I detest it." As perhaps the most famous lawman in the United States, Earp and his brothers are well known for the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral, but those few minutes of gunfire are really only a slice of the Earps' struggle to tame the lawlessness in the town of Tombstone and other parts of the Western territories in the late 1800s. It didn't help that Wyatt and his brothers were not exactly model citizens themselves. But that region was rampant with crime and corruption says well-known historian John Boessenecker and author of Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang. Listen in as John describes the tumultuous, wide open Western frontier to journalist Ernest Granson on this episode of Outrageous History!