** FAILED PSA & JSA **

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything," said Wyatt Earp about gunfighting strategy. And Earp should know. He came out unscathed from the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the famous gun battle between the Earp Brothers and Doc Holiday against the famous Clanton Brothers (Ike and Billy) and the McLaury Brothers, part of an outlaw group known as The Cowboys. Presented is a 5x3.5" envelope postmarked from Phoenix & Los Angeles on January 5, 1916, that bears the handwriting of the legendary lawman and gambler, Wyatt Earp. In the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona, three of The Cowboys were killed. In suspected acts of revenge, soon Wyatt's brother Virgil was ambushed and maimed, and Wyatt's brother Morgan was assassinated. Wyatt and Doc Holiday and others formed a Federal Posse and killed three more members of The Cowboys. Earp led an amazing, colorful life. He even refereed the famous Heavyweight Championship fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey in San Francisco on Dec. 2, 1896. Earp awarded a very controversial decision to Sharkey, ruling that Fitzsimmons had knocked Sharkey to the mat on a punch below the belt. Earp's decision was vilified, and he was accused of being in on a plot to throw the fight, and when he died in 1929, he was probably more known for that boxing decision than for his actions in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. That changed in 1931 when Stuart N Lake wrote the best-selling Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. Earp fame, as a legendary lawman and gunfighter, soared, and films and television programs about him followed. The envelope is entirely addressed in Wyatt Earp's neat handwriting, in dark ink from a fountain pen to "John H Flood at 1135 West 7th St., Los Angeles, Cal." Flood was a friend of Earp and Earp's wife, Josephine, and Flood was a mining engineer who assisted Wyatt with the lawman's unpublished autobiography. Later, Flood produced the manuscript of Earp's life - simply titled Wyatt Earp. Written vertically along the left edge of the envelope, in Earp's handwriting, is Earp's return address: "W.G. Earp, Videl, Cal." The envelope has been opened along the right edge. The envelope exhibits some darkening because of age, and the envelope has a stain in the lower right corner. The envelope comes with a PSA Letter of Authenticity. This offering is a wonderful find, and the envelope makes the grand legend of Wyatt Earp come alive before one's eyes - the Wild West lure of a lawman who was known to practically paralyze outlaws with Earp's famous greeting: "I am Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!"