Peace keeper with Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp

George McKelvey was a law man with Wyatt Earp the famous Marshall of Tombstone which features in Western folklore. The incident which linked them was when George arrested a gambler whom he and Earp then saved from lynching by an armed crowd. Read on for a real-life mini-Western.

The soldier who came back from the dead

George McKelvey of Maine, was in the US Army stationed in France in World War I. He was thrown in a pile for dead. When he came home two years after the war, he carried with him his death papers.