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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 86

Wyatt Earp's House and Grave Stone Photographs

Estimate: $750 - $1,500
Starting Bid
$175

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Offered in this lot are Rare John Gilchriese photographs of Wyatt Earp's House and Grave Stone, circa 1956, mounted. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone. One photograph is of Earp's Los Angeles, California house where he died and the second photograph is of Wyatt's and Josephine's grave marker from Colma, California. This marker was the second one stolen from the gravesite but eventually recovered; two other stones were also stolen after Josephine's death. 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. The attached Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label, "The house in Los Angeles where Wyatt Earp died. Photo taken by John Gilcriese in 1956." Photos are mounted on black cardstock boards, respectively dated, "FEB 56" and "APR 56". Museum code on reverse of each board, "E50". The photos are in very nice preserved conditions, each measures 3.5"W x 5"L, boards are 4.5"W x 6"L. Weight is U6

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