Wyatt Earp was accused of fixing a fight. The judge refused to rule

Sources

Sources

• San Francisco Call, December 1896 (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 December), 17 and 18 March 1897, 6 August 1897, 16 November 1901, 14 August 1905 and 23 July 1911 (Chronicling America, Library of Congress)
• New York Journal, 3, 4 and 5 December 1896; The Sun (New York), 3 and 4 December 1896; Los Angeles Herald (Associated Press), 3 and 16 December 1896; Sacramento Record-Union, 10 December 1896; Roanoke Daily Times, 19 December 1896 (Chronicling America)
• Arizona Weekly Citizen, 30 October 1881; Tombstone Epitaph, 27 March 1882; Eureka Daily Sentinel, 2 December 1881; Weekly Arizona Miner, 30 December 1881; Los Angeles Herald, 28 March 1882; Nome Nugget, 1 January 1900 (Chronicling America); Breeder and Sportsman (San Francisco), 1894-95 (Internet Archive)
• Evening Star (Washington), Tacoma Times, Salt Lake Tribune and Arizona Republican, 22-23 July 1911; Washington Daily News, Brownsville Herald, Indianapolis Times and Bismarck Tribune (Associated Press obituary), 14 January 1929; South Bend News-Times, 17 January 1929 (Chronicling America)
• Walter Noble Burns, Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest (1927); Stuart N. Lake in The Saturday Evening Post, 25 October to 15 November 1930
• William B. Shillingberg, "Wyatt Earp and the Buntline Special Myth", Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1976: https://kancoll.org/khq/1976/76_2_shillingberg.htm
• Leo W. Banks, "Wyatt Earp's Most Controversial Decision", HistoryNet: https://www.historynet.com/wyatt-earps-controversial-decision/
• Kieran Mulvaney, "The fight, the foul and the lawman", ESPN, 2013: https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/9879734/the-day-famous-wyatt-earp-infamously-refereed-heavyweight-title-fight
• HistoryNet, "John Flood and Wyatt Earp": https://historynet.com/john-flood-and-wyatt-earp/
• Casey Tefertiller, Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend (1997); Jack DeMattos, The Earp Decision (1989)

Film

• Edison's Corbett and Courtney (1894), the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight at Carson City (1897), Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco (1897) and the Klondike steamers leaving Seattle (1897), Library of Congress; A Visit to Los Angeles (Ford Educational Weekly, 1916); William S. Hart in Hell's Hinges (1916) and Tumbleweeds (1925); Tom Mix in Riders of the Purple Sage (1925); Show People (1928); the 1946 trailer for My Darling Clementine. Via the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.

Pictures

• the San Francisco Call's drawings and cartoons of the fight and the weeks after it (the arena, the Colt, the round-by-round drawings, the doctors at Sharkey's bed, the certificate, the hearing, "On the Road to Arizona!", "The Enemies They Have Made" and "Got Away With the Swag"); the New York Journal's drawings of Earp and the fighters; the New York Herald's "The 'Bad Man' Referee"; Homer Davenport's drawing of Hearst (1896); portraits of Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp, William S. Hart in The Silent Man (1917), Doc Holliday, Frank Stilwell, Governor Frederick Pitkin, Bob Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey (Bain collection), William Randolph Hearst, William S. Hart and Hugh O'Brian; C. S. Fly's Tombstone (1881), Carleton Watkins's Tough Nut mine and Tombstone (1880), the O.K. Corral (1882), the McLaury and Clanton coffins (1881), "City of Tombstone" (1883) and Harper's Weekly's "Cow-boys of Arizona" (1882); Gunnison (1882), the Coeur d'Alene camp (Frank Leslie's, 1884) and the Louis Bank building in San Diego (1889); the Dodge City Peace Commission (1883); Mechanics' Pavilion (1897) and the Baldwin Hotel (Robert N. Dennis collection, New York Public Library); the Carson City arena (1897, University of Nevada, Reno); Portland in 1905; Yuma in the 1890s; Nome (1899) and the Nome Nugget's engraving of the Dexter (1900); Los Angeles about 1913 and Universal City (1915); the Saturday Evening Post (1930); a commemorative Buntline Special (Smithsonian). Via the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.