He is an experienced and intelligent western lawman who is deadly with firearms.

Lake's creative biography and later Hollywood portrayals exaggerated Wyatt's profile as a western lawman.

David J. Cook (1840/1842 - April 2, 1907) was an American western lawman and City Marshal of Denver, Colorado, responsible for over 3,000 arrests.

The show, about a modern western lawman who ends up in New York City, was loosely based on the Clint Eastwood film Coogan's Bluff.

Lake's creative biography and later Hollywood portrayals boosted Wyatt's profile as a western lawman, when in fact his brother Virgil had far more experience as a sheriff, constable, and marshal.

Masterson subsequently moved to New York City where he gained fame as a boxing promoter and star of dime store novels about western lawmen.

Later Hollywood portrayals continued to exaggerate Earp's profile as a western lawman.

His colorful life as a western lawman was documented in a book by Rick Miller.

William L. "Buffalo Bill" Brooks (c. 1832 - July 29, 1874) was a western lawman and later outlaw.

Lake's creative biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, published in 1931, and later Hollywood portrayals, exaggerated Wyatt's profile as a western lawman.