“We are going to prove to Arizona beyond question that El Paso was too tough for Wyatt Earp,” Chris P. Fox told City Council yesterday, Mr. Fox appeared before Council to enlist the city’s ...

Since the earliest days of film and television, Wyatt Earp has personified the ultimate Western outlaw hero. Dozens of productions have told his story, and still more have characters based on him.

Celebrated as a man who took control of his own destiny, Wyatt Earp came to epitomize the town-taming marshal responsible for bringing the forces of law, order and civilization to the Wild West.