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#619 | Wyatt Earp | The Man Behind the Legend (English Listening Practice)
Description
In 1881, a 30-second gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona made Wyatt Earp a legend of the Wild West.
Earp was a gambler, a lawman, a fugitive, and later a showman who told his own legend for cash.
So who fired first at the OK Corral, and how did Hollywood turn a frontier opportunist into a symbol of American justice?
- The gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone
- Background on the Wild West and fast-growing frontier towns
- Wyatt Earp was hunter, driver, gambler, brothel keeper
- The Cowboys held power and feuded with the Earps
- Conflicting accounts of who fired first and surrender attempts
- Trial cleared the Earps but the town stayed divided
- Attacks on Virgil and Morgan, then Wyatt Earp took revenge
- Earp fled Arizona, wandered West running saloons and gambling
- Boxing scandal damaged his name across the country
- Hollywood and a book remade him as a hero
Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/wyatt-earp
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