A Place Called Earp: The Town Named for Wyatt Earp

32 pp. "Jim Dullenty for the first time details the town that no one knows, the only place named for an Old West gunfighter, Earp, California... The Earps established camps in and near the Whipple Mountains and eventually lived in a house at Vidal and built a shack in the town that following Wyatt's death in 1929 was named after him. The shack is gone but the legend of Wyatt Earp continues in the little town, a place where he spent many happy months each year from 1906 until 1928... In this summary of those years, the author tells something of the life of Wyatt and Josie at Earp including Wyatt's occasional forays across the Colorado River to Parker, Arizona, where he drank a little and gambled. He was so esteemed by his friends and neighbors in the area that after his death they petitioned the Post Office to rename the town in his honor."