


Where Did We Find This Stuff? Some Sources and Further Reading I let go both barrels, and he tumbled down dead and mangled at my feet.” As I rushed upon him he put out his hands and clutched at my shotgun. He stood there helpless and trembling for his life. “ I ran straight for Stilwell,” he later recounted. By the time he got back on his feet, Wyatt Earp was upon him. Stillwell and his friends ran for their lives when they spotted Wyatt, but Stillwell stumbled. Wyatt formed an escort to accompany Virgil, and on March 20 th, 1882, spotted Stillwell and two associates waiting in ambush near Tucson’s train station. Soon thereafter, Wyattlearned that Stillwell planned to murder his other brother, Virgil, in Tucson when the train carrying him and Morgan’s coffin to California stopped there. Stillwell was seen fleeing the scene of Morgan Earp’s shooting, and Wyatt Earp formed a posse to hunt the suspects. Statue in the Tucson Depot, at the spot where Wyatt Earp, in the company of Doc Holliday, killed Frank Stilwell.
