Virgil Earp and Wyatt Earp

“ Resignation of Virgil and Wyatt Earp as Deputy Marshals Major C. P. Dake, United States Marshal, Grand Hotel, Tombstone- Dear Sir: In excerising out official functions as deputy United States marshals in this territory, we have endeavored always unflinchingly to perform the duties entrusted to us. These duties have been exacting and perilous in their character, having to be performed in a community where turbulence and violence could almost any moment be organized to thwart and risist the enforcement of the process of the court issued to bring criminals to justice. ”