| Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929), was a teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, and saloon-keeper in the Wild West and the U.S. mining frontier from California to Alaska. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp. Wyatt Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, USA to Nicholas Porter Earp , a cooper and farmer, and his second wife Virginia Ann Cooksey . Reference |  |