Dubious Wyoming Licence For Prositution

Is a license for prostitution, allegedly signed by Wyatt Earp a real thing?

Or is this just a joke to amuse and confuse tourists?

Hanging in a picture frame on the wall at Cassie’s (an old brothel that is now a steakhouse in Cody) is a dubious relic of the old west…a license for prostitution from I think Kansas in 1876, and signed by none other than Marshal Wyatt Earp himself.

It’s hard to read but it looks like the license went to the Midnight Rose for $2.50...quite the conversation piece to occupy yourself while waiting to be seated. (De.Borah2077 - Instagram Post).

Let's face it, all sorts of things fool people.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if something is real or fake.

As far as we know, and what digging I could do, there has never been a "license for prostitution" issued by anyone in the state of Wyoming.

Nobody knows anything about Wyatt Earp issuing one.

If he did it would not have been legal.

If you waiting for a seat at this Cody Wyoming restaurant you can read it for yourself and decide if this was just put there for fun or if it's a real historical document.

Sometimes not knowing is half the fun.

Wyatt Earp was, arguably, the most legendary lawman in the West. Years before his infamous Dodge City and Tombstone showdowns, Earp helped build the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming.

In 1868, at the age of 20, Wyatt and his older brother Virgil followed the railway lines across Wyoming, hauling freight, grading the route, and hunting for the men who occupied the nomadic construction camps.

On July 4, 1869, Earp was a bookie for a boxing match in Cheyenne.

In 1877, Earp returned to Wyoming, where he ran into another old pal, William "Bat" Masterson, the former sheriff of Ford County, Kansas.

Wyatt becomes deputy town marshal of Dodge City, Kansas.

He was never a marshal in Wyoming. So, if this were real it did not come from Wyoming.