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Originally broadcast on PBS as part of the television series, American experience.

Edited by Bruce Shaw ; director of photography, Michael Chin ; music by Joel Goodman.

Narrated by Michael Murphy.

As a young man, Wyatt Earp was a caricature of the Western lawman, spending his days drinking in saloons, gambling, and visiting brothels. He gained notoriety as the legendary gunman in the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, but shortly after his death in 1929, distressed Americans down on their luck transformed Wyatt Earp into a folk hero.

Closed-captioned.