Clum, remembered Earp as possessing "strong, positive and pleasing" features, though adding that he "smiled only when the occasion warranted it. Onetime Tombstone mayor, and publisher of the Epitaph newspaper, John P. Although known in certain circles as an efficient if undistinguished peace officer in the Kansas cow towns of Wichita and Dodge City, and a part-time gambler or "sporting man," the Wyatt Earp who landed in Tombstone near the beginning of the silver boom was a man of no national reputation even so, he commanded a certain cheerful dread among his associates. But for Wyatt Earp's arrival in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in December, 1879, the ultimate fate of the "The Town Too Tough to Die" made famous in so many books and motion pictures, may have been different: while Tombstone exists because of prospector Ed Schieffelin, the town persists because of Wyatt Earp and his singular exploits on the Arizona frontier of the early 1880's.
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