Legendary Nevadans
Wyatt and Virgil Earp
All Nevada is a stage, and cowpokes, artists, activists, and visionaries are players in a drama centuries in the making. Whether born or raised, these special characters aren’t just Nevadans: they’re Legendary Nevadans.
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WYATT EARP
Stay tuned for more tales In of Legendary Nevadans. ain our next issue, Mark Tw discovers his talent as a writer while working for the Territorial Enterprise is in Virginia City. Later th es year, we'll follow the liv of Sarah Winnemucca and Jessie Beck.
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SHOWDOWN
On a cold October day in 1881, four men approached a group of cowboys gathered in an alley. These four represented the law in Tombstone, Arizona: City Marshal Virgil Earp, his brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday. Reports of what happened next run the gamut from massacre to a fair fight, but 30 seconds later, three cowboys were dead and the West’s most famous shootout at the O.K. Corral entered the history books—guaranteeing posterity would know the names Virgil and Wyatt Earp. Central Nevada Museum
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