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As a favor to coach Jones, who had given silent Western film star Tom Mix tickets to USC games, director John Ford and Mix hired Wayne as a prop boy and extra. [28] [29] Wayne later credited his walk, talk, and persona to his acquaintance with Wyatt Earp, who was good friends with Tom Mix. [28]
Wyatt Earp in Nome, Alaska, with long-time friend and former Tombstone mayor and newspaper editor John Clum, 1900 The pistol was said to be Wyatt Earp's, left behind in Juneau, Alaska, but he was arrested in Nome three days before the date on the sign The Wyatt Earp and Josephine Sarah Marcus Cottage in Vidal, California
John H. Flood Jr., Wyatt Earp's secretary, who he regarded like a son, drew a sketch of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 1926 under Wyatt's supervision. The drawing placed participants and selected witnesses on Fremont Street in Tombstone, and Earp annotated it with lines indicating how the participants moved during the 30-second shootout.
Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973).
The section on My Darling Clementine features Fonda and Stewart, both of whom played Wyatt Earp in Ford films, interviewing Ford about the director's claim that Earp himself had explained the strategy and chronology of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral to Ford and Harry Carey, complete with a sketched diagram, decades before Ford filmed a version of the melee with Fonda as Earp.
Obverse of pocket watch given to Wyatt Earp by Tom Mix. Mix became friends with Wyatt Earp, who lived in Los Angeles and occasionally visited Hollywood western movie sets. [13] He was a pallbearer at Earp's funeral in January 1929. [14] The newspapers reported that Mix cried during his friend's service. [15]
Unlike most legendary lawmen of the American West, Earp was relatively unknown until Stuart N. Lake published the first biography of Wyatt Earp, [45]: 154–161 Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal in 1931, [46] two years after Earp died. [45] Lake portrayed Earp as a "Western superhero" who single-handedly cleaned up a town full of Cowboy criminals. [47]
In 1919, with the help of John Flood, Wyatt Earp drew a map showing the location of Iron Springs. The Whetstone Mountains On Friday, March 24, the Earp posse, including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMaster, and Texas Jack, rode west about 12 miles (19 km) from their overnight campsite about halfway between Contention and Drew's Station.