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Legend of Wyatt Earp is shot down 80 years after his death

Many historians claim famous lawman was a cold-blooded murderer By Jasper Hamill

HE'S portrayed as the man who cleaned up Tombstone, but 80 years after Wild West legend Wyatt Earp's death, an onslaught of critical reappraisals of his life by academics and folk historians may demolish the famed lawman's reputation forever.