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#619 | Wyatt Earp | The Man Behind the Legend (English Listening Practice)
In 1881, a 30-second gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona made Wyatt Earp a legend of the Wild West. Earp was a gambler, a lawman, a fugitive, and later a showman who told his own legend for cash. So who fired first at the OK Corral, and how did Hollywood turn a frontier opportunist into a symbol of American justice? The gunfight at the OK Corral in TombstoneBackground on the Wild West and fast-growing frontier townsWyatt Earp was hunter, driver, gambler, brothel keeperThe Cowboys held power and feuded with the EarpsConflicting accounts of who fire...
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
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- 91% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 124 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
- 112 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Hello, hello, hello and welcome to English Learning for Curious Minds by Leonardo English, the show where you can listen to fascinating stories and learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English. I'm Alastair Budge and today we are going to start a three-part mini-series called
tales from the Wild West. Instead of talking about the history of the Wild West, we're going to learn about it through the stories of three famous historical characters. In this episode, part one, it'll be Wyatt Earp, a man who, to quote his Wikipedia page, was at various points, a lawman, a buffalo hunter, a saloon keeper, a miner, a brothelkeeper,
a boxing referee, which is a kind of resume you just don't see nowadays. Next up it'll be Bass Reeves, a man born into slavery who went on to become one of the most feared and successful lawmen in American history. And in part three it'll be Geronimo, the Native American leader whose life and surrender
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