in the Washington Post, reprinted by the San Francisco Call, describing the Earp's lawbreaking behavior in Tombstone. After referring to the highly controversial Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight for which Wyatt Earp was referee, the article quoted Behan: Wyatt's action in taking justice into his own hands became one of the most well known examples of American frontier justice in American history. Wyatt Earp became the archetypal image of a real-life anti-hero. In 1927, Earp defended his decisions before the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and afterward to Stuart Lake, author of the 1931 largely fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal: See also List of feuds in the United States Ten Percent Ring References Further reading Cochise County conflict Conflicts in 1882 Arizona Territory American Old West gunfights Arizona folklore History of Cochise County, Arizona Earp family Crime in Arizona Territory 1882 in Arizona Territory Vigilantism in the United States March 1882 events April 1882 events