This Day…

Posted on by Chris Enss

1882 – The Earp posse got itself dusted up at Mescal Springs by some bandits who robbed a store in Charleston.  Wyatt claimed to have killed Curly Bill there but it was another of his many lies.  Curly Bill had previously left the territory.  Wyatt and Doc then prudently fled to Colorado in order to avoid arrest by Behan’s posse on the Stillwater warrant.