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Tombstone Western Heritage Museum Auction: The Earp Brothers & Cowboys

Sat, Jul 26, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Join North American Auction Company on July 26th for a once-in-a-lifetime auction of the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum Collection. This extraordinary sale features the largest private collection of Tombstone history, including rare and historic pieces tied to Wyatt Earp, the Earp Brothers, and the infamous Cochise Cowboys. From original artifacts, outlaw relics, and the largest collection of C.S. Fly photographs, this is a can’t-miss event for collectors of the Old West’s most legendary chapter.
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Lot 253

Rare Antique Wyatt Earp Photographs, 1921

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Starting Bid
$200

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Offered in this lot are Rare Wyatt Earp Photographs, 1921. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, museum renditions. One photograph shows Wyatt standing on the porch of his Vidal, California home which was located a few miles south of the Earp's Happy Days mine. The second photograph shows Wyatt sitting inside the same home. Wyatt is dressed in both photographs in his three-piece suit and wearing a hat. Wyatt Earp was a legendary America Old West gunslinger, gambler, and lawman in Dodge City, Kansas, Deadwood in Dakota Territory and Tombstone in Arizona Territory. Earp was involved in the gunfight at the O. K. Corral, during which lawmen, which included his brothers Morgan and Virgil as well as Doc Holliday, killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys on October 26, 1881. After leaving Tombstone, Wyatt went to San Francisco to spend time with his convalescing brother Virgil, his wounds received during the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral in Tombstone. After leaving Tombstone in 1882, Wyatt and Josephine Earp eventually settled in the Los Angeles area from 1911 until his death in 1929. Earp's time in Los Angeles was split between summers in Los Angeles and the rest of the years at their "Happy Days" gold mining camp near Vidal, California. Even in his later years, Earp retained a notable presence, consulting on Western films and maintaining connections with celebrities like novelist Jack London, directors John Ford and Raoul Walsh, and actors Charlie Chaplin, William S. Hart and Tom Mix, who was a pallbearer at his funeral. The attached Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label on the face of one of the clear protective plastic sleeves, "WYATT EARP JULY 4, 1921". Photographs are in amazing preserved condition with some deterioration noted. Each measures 8"W x 10"L approximately, protective sleeves measures 8.375"W x 10.25"L. Combined weight is U6.

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