Corral, after Virgil was maimed in an ambush, Warren joined Wyatt and was in town when Morgan was assassinated.

Like Wyatt and Morgan, he was too young to take part in the American Civil War, as his older brothers James, Virgil, and Newton did.

He joined his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona in 1880, and worked occasionally as a deputy for Virgil collecting taxes and for periodic guard duty.

On March 20, 1882, he joined a posse guarding Virgil and Allie as they were transported to Tucson to catch a train for California.

On Friday the Tucson Grand Jury returned indictments naming Warren, Wyatt, Doc Holliday, "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and Sherman McMaster.

After receiving notice of the warrants, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan gathered his deputies and Tombstone City Marshal Dave Neagle.

Behan and his men met at the door of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, preparing to arrest the Earp party.

They found the Earps exiting the lobby of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, heavily armed, on their way to pick up their horses from Montgomery's Stable.

[4][5] They left Tombstone that night and during the next week killed three more Cowboys they believed responsible for attacking their brothers in a vendetta across Cochise County.

Virgil was reunited in 1898 with his first wife Ellen and daughter Nellie who had been told he had been killed in the Civil War.

'"[6] On July 6, 1900, Warren became involved in an argument with Hooker's range boss, Johnny Boyett, inside Brown's Saloon in Willcox.

Boyett and Warren had been involved in verbal disputes before that night, and rumor was that their mutual dislike stemmed from affections for the same woman, possibly a local prostitute.

[1] Earp stepped calmly outside of the saloon onto the street without producing a weapon, just as Boyett fired two more rounds, missing again with both.

[1] Lynn R. Baily, the daughter of rancher Henry Hooker, wrote in Henry Clay Hooker and the Sierra Bonita, that "Virgil Earp sneaked into Willcox under an assumed name, checked into the hotel near Brown's Saloon, and began interviewing witnesses.

He concluded his brother's death was "cold blooded murder even if Warren was drunk and abusive at the time.