Wyatt Earp’s Most Controversial Decision

The lawman-turned-referee called a low blow in an 1896 heavyweight boxing match, and the uproar that followed reverberated nationwide. Wyatt Earp’s bitterest enemy, one he could never vanquish, was not a Clanton, a McLaury or one of the other Cowboys. It was a 2-inch-tall cartoon character in an oversized sombrero. The mustachioed figure, a knife …

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