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===Arrival in Arizona=== From Dodge City, Virgil and Allie arrived in [[Yavapai County, Arizona]], in July 1877. Virgil lived in [[Camp Verde, Arizona]], where he first delivered mail and drove passengers between Camp Verde and Prescott on the Star Line stage. By October 1877 Virgil and Allie had moved to [[Prescott, Arizona]], where he later owned a saw mill outside of town. On October 16, 1877, [[U.S. Marshal]] Wiley Standifer, [[Yavapai County]] Sheriff [[Edward Franklin Bowers]], Prescott [[Constables in the United States#Arizona|Constable]] Frank Murray, Virgil Earp, and Colonel William Henry McCall attempted to arrest John Tallos and accused murderer George Wilson. While the others rode on horseback or carriages, Virgil ran on foot after the posse that pursued the two men to the edge of town, where a gun fight broke out. Virgil spotted one of the two men under a tree, reloading his pistol. Using a Winchester rifle from a distance, Virgil shot him through the head, killing him.<ref name="Isen" /><ref name="OldWest" /><ref name="guinn" /> Virgil was shortly afterwards offered a job as a driver for Patterson, Caldwell & Levally, a local freight company, during which he met [[John J. Gosper]], Secretary of the Arizona Territory. Gosper was acting Governor in the place of Governor [[John C. Frémont]], who was frequently absent. When Crawley Dake was appointed U.S. Marshal, he and Virgil became friends. In 1878, Virgil was appointed as Prescott's night watchman, which paid $75 a month. In November 1878, he was elected as [[Constables in the United States#Arizona|constable]] for Prescott, for which he received fees for serving summonses, subpoenas, writs and warrants.<ref name="guinn" /> While constable, Virgil wrote his brother Wyatt about the opportunities in the silver-mining [[boomtown]] of [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]]. In September 1879, Wyatt resigned as assistant marshal in Dodge City. Accompanied by his [[Common-law marriage|common-law wife]] [[Mattie Blaylock]], his brother [[James Earp|Jim]] and his wife Bessie, they left for [[Las Vegas, New Mexico|Las Vegas]] in the New Mexico Territory. There they were reconnected with [[Doc Holliday]] and his common-law wife [[Big Nose Kate|Kate Horony]], who had been running a gambling business until the territorial legislature banned gambling.<ref name="guinn" /><ref name="monahan" />{{rp|18}}<ref name="marks" />{{rp|30–31}} Virgil and his wife met the others in Prescott.
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