什麼是易爾普

Earp, Wyatt (Berry Stapp)

美國邊疆開拓者，生於伊利諾州蒙茅斯（Monmouth）。1870年代在維契託（Wichita）、道奇市（Dodge City）任警官，並結交霍利德（Doc Holliday）、馬斯特森（Bat Masterson）等槍手。之後在威爾斯-法戈公司（Wells Fargo）當警衞。1881年在亞歷桑納州的湯姆斯通（Tombstone）落腳，成了鎮上的賭徒兼酒店保鏢，他的哥哥維吉爾（Virgil）則成為該鎮警長，其他的兄弟詹姆斯（James）、摩根（Morgan）和華倫（Warren）購置了些許房地產並擁有部分產業。他與克蘭頓（Clanton）一幫惡徒結仇，雙方在OK牧場（O. K. Corral）進行一場有名的槍戰，克蘭頓幫三人死亡。1882年摩根被殺害，懷特和他的弟弟華倫乃夥同一些朋友殺死了兩個嫌犯。由於被控謀殺，懷特開始逃亡，先到科羅拉多州，後到西部若干新興城鎮，最後在加州定居。雷克（Stuart Lake）在其合作下寫了《懷特.易爾普--邊疆的聯邦警長》（Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal, 1931）一書，把他塑造成一個大無畏的執法者。

1848～1929年

Earp, Wyatt (Berry Stapp)

U.S. frontiersman. Born in Monmouth, Ill., he worked in the 1870s as a police officer in Wichita and Dodge City, where he befriended the gunmen Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. He later worked as a guard for Wells Fargo. By 1881 he had moved to Tombstone, Ariz., living as a gambler and a saloon guard. His brother Virgil became town marshal, and his other brothers (James, Morgan, and Warren) bought real estate and businesses. A feud with the Clanton gang ended in a shootout at the O.K. Corral in which three of the Clanton gang were killed. In 1882 Morgan was murdered, and Wyatt, Warren, and some friends killed two suspects in retaliation. Accused of murder, Wyatt fled to Colorado and later settled in California. Stuart Lake's Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal (1931), written with Earp's collaboration, portrayed him as a fearless lawman.