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00:03Virgil Earp, July 18, 1843 to October 19, 1905, was the older brother of Wyatt Earp and played
00:11a central role in the events surrounding the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Here is what
00:15happened to him after the famous shootout. December 28, 1881, Ambush in Tombstone,
00:22about two months after the O.K. Corral gunfight, October 26, 1881, Virgil, who was still serving
00:28as Tombstone City Marshal, or Deputy U.S. Marshal, depending on the source, was ambushed late at
00:34night while walking across the street from the Oriental Saloon to his hotel. Assassins hiding
00:39in a second-story building across the street opened fire with shotguns. Virgil was hit by
00:44multiple buckshot pellets. The most serious wound shattered his left arm near the elbow,
00:49requiring the surgical removal of several inches of bone. The arm was permanently maimed and mostly
00:55useless for the rest of his life. Aftermath and departure from Arizona. After the attempt on his
01:00life, and a later attack that killed his brother Morgan in March 1882, Virgil and his wife Allie
01:06left Tombstone for good. Wyatt and Doc Holliday escorted them by train as far as Tucson, where
01:12another brief shootout occurred with cowboy faction members. Virgil eventually made it to his parents'
01:17home in Colton, California, to recover. Later life. Virgil eventually regained enough health to work
01:24again. He served as a deputy sheriff and city marshal in Colton, California, ran a detective agency,
01:30and in the late 1890s, early 1900s operated a saloon and served as constable in the gold mining town of
01:37Vanderbilt, California. In 1900 he ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of San Bernardino County.
01:43He remained close to Wyatt and the rest of the family. Death. Virgil Earp died of pneumonia on
01:49October 19, 1905, at the age of 62 in Goldfield, Nevada, where he had gone hoping the dry climate
01:56would help his health. He is buried in Goldfield's Pioneer Cemetery. In short, Virgil survived the
02:03tombstone vendetta, unlike his brother Morgan, lived another 24 years with a crippled left arm,
02:08continued in law enforcement and business ventures, and ultimately died of natural causes,
02:13pneumonia, in 1905.
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