A legendary figure of the West, Wyatt Earp is best-known for the two-year span of his life when he was a lawman in Tombstone, Arizona, which is also where the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened.

That gunfight lasted about 30 seconds, but it has reverberated across history. The stories that sprang up around it are an immortal archetype of the West and a symbol of frontier conflict.

That famous gunfight though wasn’t the lawman’s first. His first has been shrouded by a veil of history up until now.

The Illinois towns of Beardstown and Peoria have laid their own claims to Earp’s first gunfight. But the honor actually belongs to Orin, Wyoming, according to the research of historian Janelle Molony, who is a descendant of Sarah Jane Rousseau.

Wyatt Earp passed through Orin at the

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