Offbeat Oregon: Why legendary lawman Virgil Earp is buried in a S.W. Portland cemetery
Portland’s River View Cemetery is the state’s oldest nonprofit cemetery, founded in 1882 by three of Portland’s most prominent citizens: Henry Corbett, ...
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Portland’s River View Cemetery is the state’s oldest nonprofit cemetery, founded in 1882 by three of Portland’s most prominent citizens: Henry Corbett, ...
Portland’s River View Cemetery is the state’s oldest nonprofit cemetery, founded in 1882 by three of Portland’s most prominent citizens: Henry Corbett, ...
McMurtry western examines shape and reality of current world
True West Magazine Jim Flynn Shortly after the fatal shooting of Tombstone Town Marshal, Fred White by Curly Bill Brocius on October 30 th, 1880, Virgil Earp was appointed town marshal. An election was held on November 12 th. Jim Flynn, Virgil Earp and Ben Sippy ran for marshal. Sippy defeated Earp 311 votes to 250. Flynn dropped out of the race to go into business at the Cosmopolitan Saloon. Sippy defeated Virgil again in the regular election on January 4 th but skipped town in June and Virgil was appointed marshal. He and his deputies including Flynn did an outstanding job keeping the pe...