Although best known as a fearless frontier lawman, Wyatt Earp had several run-ins with the law himself. He was arrested for horse theft in Van Buren, Arkansas on May 8, 1971. After jumping bail, he fled to Kansas where he hunted buffalo and married a local prostitute. He is usually depicted as the hero of the famous gunfight at the OK Coral, but according to quite a few sources, he and his brothers actually instigated the fight. Afterwards, Earp was arrested by sheriff John Behan for the murder of Billy Clanton and Tom & Frank McLaury. Fortunately for him, the judge who tried the case, Wells Spicer, was a relative and the Earps were found to have been justified in their actions. Earp was jailed for theft again in 1883 and 1885. He died on January 13, 1929. Two years later, Stuart N. Lake, one of Wyatt's friends, published a book entitled Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshall, depicting Earp as a great Old West hero. The book was quickly denounced as grossly inaccurate by those who knew Earp personally, and Allie Earp, the widow of one of Wyatt's brothers, went so far as to call it "a pack of lies". Nevertheless, the legend of Wyatt Earp has grown around Lake's biography, and right or wrong, he has been immortalized as a fearless frontier lawman.