Day after day, it ran articles mocking the referee ... The conclusive blow was his patented punch to the solar plexus. Wyatt Earp was in attendance. He was not invited to be the referee.

These days, the Snake Pit serves as a destination ... Oh, and one particularly famous Old West character: Wyatt Earp, who's thought to have visited the Snake Pit, though details are scarce.

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.

Despite John Wayne being a huge admirer of Wyatt Earp, he was bizarrely overlooked ... Fonda (via Life in the 1800s), Ford recalled a day when Earp sketched out the shootout at the O.K. Corral ...

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19 ... reputation is that of Old West's "toughest and deadliest gunman of his day." Earp spent his early life in Iowa. After his first wife, Urilla Sutherland ...

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.