Wyatt Earp series on Netflix is pretty good.

[the watcher]

It examines the Earp saga with factual portrayals and witness recall without any agenda. Pretty well done, if you like western history this is a must.

 

[1srelluc]

I'm one episode in. Is OK but I'm so used to seeing either Costner or Russel as Wyatt Earp it seems strange.

The actor playing Earp would have made a better Doc Holiday, I think.

 

[Rambunctious]

Most people don't know that Earp lived the latter part of his life in Los Angeles and rode the red car to work... his street is still as it was but his home has been torn down and an office building parking lot is in its place... but the homes across the street were there when he lived there...

 

[Rambunctious]

 

[odanny]

He has some Illinois roots. He even did some pimp work at a brothel in these parts.


Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, 1848, the fourth child of Nicholas Porter Earp and his second wife, Virginia Ann Cooksey. He was named after his father's commanding officer in the Mexican–American War, Captain Wyatt Berry Stapp, of the 2nd Company Illinois Mounted Volunteers. Some evidence supports Wyatt Earp's birthplace as 406 S. 3rd St. in Monmouth, Illinois, though the street address is disputed by Monmouth College professor and historian William Urban.[15]

The Wyatt Earp Birthplace, Inc., 1986, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places 1999. The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency visited the home at 406 So. 3rd St. and submitted the nomination.

First gunfight​

Virgil soon went to Missouri and Wyatt to Beardstown, Illinois, 70 miles (110 km) south, where he spent the summer of 1869. Beardstown was undergoing a boom thanks to a rail line being laid through town.[30]

During that summer in Beardstown, a railroad brakeman named Tom Pinard mocked Wyatt, calling him "the California boy", a euphemism for coward, implying that Wyatt had gone to California to avoid serving in the Civil War. Although Wyatt had attempted to join the army when he was 13 and been stopped by his father, he took offense at Piner's remarks. They fought inside Walton's Hotel, a brothel owned by John T. Walton, and Wyatt tossed Pinard outside. Pinard drew his gun and so did Wyatt. The two men exchanged shots; Wyatt wounded Pinard in the hip.

 

[the watcher]

I think John Wayne had met Wyatt and influenced him a lot with his mannerisms. Earp did referee some boxing matches in California, and was a real stand up badass in a period filed with them. History is pretty fickle, and 50 years from now the movies may show Alec Baldwin as the real hero of the ok corral.