While in real life Wyatt Earp did not directly arrest Dave Rudabaugh following his talk with Doc Holiday as depicted in the film, the outlaw would continue to have run-ins with the lawman for the next five years. Earp telegraphed the information he got from Holiday to William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, who did arrest Rudabaugh in Kansas in 1878. Following this and other encounters with Earp in Dodge City, Rudabaugh fled to New Mexico where he joined up with Billy the Kid in a new gang. Following a shootout at Stinking Springs on 12/23/1880. He was taken prisoner along with Billy The Kid and sent to prison for trial in Santa Fe. In February 1881 he was sentenced to hang for his crimes but escaped custody and fled to Arizona. There he joined the Clanton faction in their battles against Earp and his family. He may have taken part in the shootings of Virgil and Morgan Earp, as well as the subsequent clash at Iron Springs where Curly Bill Brocius was killed. Rudabaugh came to a bad end when he was killed and decapitated in Mexico on 2/18/1886.

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