Wyatt Earp
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
Marker Inscription
Wyatt Earp plaque marks the location of the house in which Earp spent the last years of his life
The Story
This plaque marks the Los Angeles house where Wyatt Earp, the frontier lawman made legend at Tombstone's O.K. Corral, lived out his final years. Far from the boom camps of his youth, the aging Earp spent his last decades in the growing city, dying there in 1929.
Why it matters
It links one of the Old West's most storied figures to the modern city where the frontier era quietly came to a close.
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