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You daddy sure was a handsome fella!TV Earp Hugh O'Brian; looks like my father.
Oh, I don't know, I would have taken a crack at him when he was 63. I think he is really handsome. I like my men rugged.Wow! The real one sure wasn't as easy on the eyes as Hugh' O Brian. What a let down.
I never knew that.Wyatt Warp was never hit with a bullet despite being shot at on many occasions.
Do you mean Wild Bill not Wyatt??When I was a little kid he was still spoken about as if he was a Super Hero. Years later numerous books came out about what a crook he was. He used his gun not to stop crime and bring justice but to bring about greater $$$ gain for himself. Just a few year ago I came across his story and Deadwood. Tough guy that he was, he finally met his match on the soft spoken but tough Canadian Seth Bullock. It was the only time he backed away from a fight because he knew he was not the match of the strong but silent law enforcer nicknamed Nanticoke.
I'm your huckleberry, @Fyrefox. Watch this movie every couple of years.Tombstone is my fave western, especially for Val Kilmer’s breakout, quirky portrayal of Doc Holliday…
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Very interesting read. The American public sure swallowed the reinvented Earp story - hook, line and sinker.I've only seen one of the Wyatt Earp movies. I can't remember which one it was!
Oh it was the one with Kurt Russell.
My post number 5 comes from:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-wyatt-earp-myth-americas-most-famous-vigilante-wasnt?ref=scroll
Do you mean Wild Bill not Wyatt??
Well your father was a very handsome man!TV Earp Hugh O'Brian; looks like my father.
Wrong. First as sheriff Bullock failed to arrest many killers in Deadwood. To say Earp was crook is a joke. He never set out to be a lawman. In those days people did what they did to get by. He took jobs for money. Many famous bad guys were at times, lawmen. All one had to do is say yes and he became a lawman. There were no white hats and white horses. As fas as "backing down" from Bullock Earp just wanted his job and Bullock was not about to give it up. There was no backing down from a fight.When I was a little kid he was still spoken about as if he was a Super Hero. Years later numerous books came out about what a crook he was. He used his gun not to stop crime and bring justice but to bring about greater $$$ gain for himself. Just a few year ago I came across his story and Deadwood. Tough guy that he was, he finally met his match on the soft spoken but tough Canadian Seth Bullock. It was the only time he backed away from a fight because he knew he was not the match of the strong but silent law enforcer nicknamed Nanticoke.
Wrong. First as sheriff Bullock failed to arrest many killers in Deadwood. To say Earp was crook is a joke. He never set out to be a lawman. In those days people did what they did to get by. He took jobs for money. Many famous bad guys were at times, lawmen. All one had to do is say yes and he became a lawman. There were no white hats and white horses. As fas as "backing down" from Bullock Earp just wanted his job and Bullock was not about to give it up. There was no backing down from a fight.
A business thriving in Deadwood a town known for being Hell on Earth. Much to be proud of. If you were literate of history you would know the reason he left.LOL. I guess Earp must have been your hero.
Bullock's business still exists in Deadwood, SD:
Earp forgot to leave his mark there. Must have skipped town real fast.
You left out he & his brothers were tried for murder after the OK Corral gunfight.Wyatt Earp famously delivered justice the American way—except it’s all a lie, says biographer Andrew Isenberg.
As a young man, Earp was arrested for horse theft and consorting with prostitutes. He was run out of a Texas town for trying to sell a rock painted yellow as a gold brick. He was drawn to police work not because of a devotion to the law but because, during the Gilded Age when public corruption was rampant, it was an easy source of cash. He went to court in 1896 for having refereed a fixed heavyweight championship prizefight, and as late as 1911, at age 63, he was arrested by the Los Angeles police for running a crooked card game.