Tombstone City Marshal David Neaglewho with Cochise County Sheriff John Behan tried and failed to arrest Wyatt and Warren Earp, Holliday and their vendetta posse at the Cosmopolitan as they left Tombstone for keeps in 1882later moved to California. He bought a volume of Shakespeare, and the trio read Hamlet together. Wyatt Earp married Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Missouri on January 10, 1870. Their encounter is only a charming Hollywood fable. Loaded with western props and furnishings, it has been described as a "complete frontier town, with a dusty street, hitching rails, a saloon, jail, bank, doctor's office, surveyor's office, and the simple frame houses typical of the early Western era". The list of Californians in the Earp orbit is particularly impressive. Corralscene of the 1881 shootout. Still considered one of the definitive books on earp, lake's tome unfortunately suffered somewhat in accuracy due to the demands . Dan Krieger is a professor emeritus of history at Cal Poly and past president of the California Mission Studies Association. Former Tombstone Epitaph editor Clum moved to San Bernardino in 1886, where he dabbled in real estate and intermingled with the Earps. So he's not just a movie legend, he was a real person! In April 1882, after the Earp/Holliday party had left Tombstone on their vendetta ride, the Cosmopolitan welcomed General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had replaced Ulysses S. Grant as commanding general of the Army in 1869 after Grant was elected president. The gunfight at the O.K. By the mid-1920s, the hero of the gunfight at the O.K. His first appearance was in a short film, The Cowboy Millionaire, released on October 21, 1909. . For the time they lived in town, Buckskin Frank and the Earp brothers saw each other almost daily. Corralscene of the 1881 shootout. [16][17] Additionally, from 1986 to 2002 there existed another museum in his birthplace of Mix Run, Pennsylvania. You could say Fly knew the Earps up close, as his studio abutted the vacant lot behind the O.K. He made a hasty exit while bleeding profusely from his wound. It is astonishing how many individuals destined for fame Wyatt and Josie met in Alaska amid the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. Who was wyatt earps honarary pallbearers? And to think the Earps would reconnect with many of them for one last hurrah in the early decades of the 1900s. Wyatt is actually a cousin and while he died long before I was born, his legend has long shadowed my life, he said. Mix made more than 160 cowboy films throughout the 1920s. Local dignitaries, including Tombstone Epitaph editor John Clum, attorney Ben Goodrich and Oriental Saloon owner and local politico Milt Joyce, wined and dined the general at Bilickes hotel. George Washington had complained vociferously about the flood of questionable foreign volunteers. Mix made 291 movies throughout his career. Mix was seen openly crying at Earp's funeral. Robertson became the publisher and close associate of such famed authors as London, Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Robert Louis Stevenson. Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holliday went to the corral to confront the gang. On June 22, 1880, while living at Bilickes Cosmopolitan Hotel in Tombstone, Leslie shot down Mike Killeen. So Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-1929) was a famous figure, best known for his exploits with his brothers as law men and gamblers in the "Wild West." The most recognized incident is the "Gunfight at the O.K. But he did become legendary. Lucky and Wyatt first met in San Diego racing circles in the 1880s and later in the Los Angeles racing world (Earp and Rickabaugh trained some of their horses on the Baldwin Ranch), as well as the racing-gambling world of San Francisco (negotiations for the 1896 Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight, controversially refereed by Earp, took place at the Baldwin Hotel). After 1900 Brighton served as a policeman and constable in the Sawtelle district of Los Angeles and its Old Soldiers Home, where he resided. Corral did attract the admiring attention of the citys thriving new film industry. Dr. George E. Goodfellow, who tended to the Earp brothers assorted wounds in Tombstone, lived and traveled in the Los Angeles area and died in town in 1910. . Among the more influential Nevada politicians of the era was Tasker Oddie, one-term governor, two-term U.S. senator and a key figure in the rise of the Tonopah mining district. [18] Between 1980 and 2004, 21 Tom Mix festivals were held during the month of September, most of them in DuBois, Pennsylvania. Considered by many as one of Americas few original art forms, the Western genre defined the early days of the expansive American frontier, mostly in the last part of the 19th century. Bill Pickett invented the rodeo art of bulldogging, and Herb Jeffries, the first black singing cowboy, was also a lead singer for Duke Ellingtons orchestra. Was John Wayne a pallbearer at Wyatt Earps funeral? Starting in 1933, the Ralston-Purina Co. sponsored a three-night-a-week radio series called Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters. Mix, reportedly because of a bullet wound to his throat, didnt have a voice for radio. Associates from northern California included jockey Tod Sloan. Wyatt Earp was one of the many children born to Nicholas Porter Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey. Many of the most famous characters in the Western movies were either loosely or wholly based on real people. I remember his name, but that's about all. I remember my Mom talking about him and seeing him in old silent movies myself. He was killed, while his wife survived. He later encountered both Wyatt and Parsons while serving as a postal inspector and postmaster in Alaska from 1898 to 1909. Sewell thrilled us at the Sheriffs firing range by demonstrating Mixs Thompson Submachine Gun. The family was settled at a farm near Iowa. There is no telling how often these fellows may have met, even in passing, in Los Angeles. Tom Mix, among few genuine Western cowboys to have starred in films, was a known companion of the Earps and attended horse races with Wyatt and Josie. The son of a lumberman, Tom Mix joined the army as a young man and was an artillery sergeant during the Philippine campaign from 1898 to 1901, though he never saw action. Others, like boxing promoter Rickard, would continue their relationships with Wyatt in Nevada and California. Fawcett Comics published 61 issues of Tom Mix Western from 1948 to 1953. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. It appears they made and lost many fortunes. He was an admirer of Wyatt Earp from their Tombstone days and remained so when the famed lawman moved to Los Angeles with common-law wife Josie. . Around the same time William Jesse Curtis, the patriarch of his family, served as district attorney of San Bernardino County. Three were intact, while one was about to collapse. Truth be told, Wayne wasnt a pallbearer at Earps funeral (though two silent stars, Tom Mix and William S. Hart, were). Tom Mix WW. He and Wyatt met in Nome, where Pittman prospected and served as the first city attorney. At Wyatt Earp's funeral, held the Tuesday after he died on January 13, 1929, his pallbearers were: (pictured above from left) attorney W.J. What a small world. David D. de Haas Art of the West article about Victor Clyde Forsythe is online at Historynet.com. In 1958 Mix was inducted posthumously into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Unable to stop in time, his car swerved twice, then overturned in a gully. The Supreme Court eventually ruled in Neagles favor in a case with profound implications for the supremacy of federal law over state law. The trio had already made their mark in Tombstone. Nothing proved Earp's mettle more than the tumultuous gunfight near the O.K. Sid Grauman and Alexander Pantages of movie theater fame were there at the outset of their working lives, trying to make a buck by entertaining miners, and at best saw Wyatt dispensing drinks or sitting at a faro table in Nome. By Dan Krieger Where did Wyatt Earp live in Los Angeles? On October 12, 1940, after visiting Pima County Sheriff Ed Echols in Tucson, Arizona,[4] Mix headed north towards Phoenix on U.S. Highway 80 (now Arizona State Route 79) About eighteen miles (29km) south of Florence, Mix came upon construction barriers at a bridge washed away by a flash flood. "The following story is almost true give or take a lie or two," proclaimed Blake Edwards' 1988 low-key comedy that pairs Hollywood silent film superstar Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) with Earp played, for the second go around, by James Garner. Bruce Willis, as Tom Mix, and James Garner, as Wyatt Earp, have never been better at their laid-back charm-boy schtick. Nadeau, a leading freighter in the region, had purchased mining property in Tombstone from the Earps. You could say Virgil Earp knew Corbett up close. They married in 1918 and had a daughter, Thomasina (Tommie) Mix, in February 1922.[3]. This column is by Dan Krieger. Albert Bilicke was operating the downtown Hollenbeck Hotel (billed as the Headquarters for Arizonans), while Remi Nadeau erected L.A.s first four-story building (the Nadeau Hotel, which also boasted the first elevator in town). In 1900 Lucky and Wyatt met over a few glasses at the Earp-run Dexter Saloon in Nome, Alaska. Griggers was a crack pistol shot and could shoot the band off a cigar, leaving the cigar intact. He accepted the position of deputy sheriff for eastern Pima County, where the town of Tombstone was located. Gentleman Jim Corbett, a world heavyweight champion and future inductee in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His elder brothers joined the Union Army when the American Civil War began, while Wyatt, 13 years old, and his younger brothers took care of the farm. In the wake of the fight Judge Swinnerton was part of the cabal seeking to overturn Earps upset decision for Tom Sharkey over Bob Fitzsimmons. After participating in the last of the great gold rushes in Nevada, Wyatt finally settled in Los Angeles, where he tried unsuccessfully to find someone to publicize his many western adventures. The plot, while complex and often violent, is not to be taken seriously -- or better still, not to be thought about at all. William S. Hart was a pallbearer and Tom Mix was there. A notorious lush, the politico almost certainly patronized Nomes Dexter Saloon and Tonopahs Northern Saloon, both Earp operations. I'd venture a guess that most people these days have never even heard of Tom Mix. Instead, Corbett yelled at and advanced on Earp. Reply [9], Mix became friends with Wyatt Earp, who lived in Los Angeles and occasionally visited Hollywood western movie sets. He rode several mounts for Wyatt at San Franciscos Bay District Track in 1895 and went on to become one of the most successful jockeys in the United States and Britain. 2 Are there any living relatives of Wyatt Earp? He and Forde divorced in 1931. Apologizing for his brothers outburst, Wyatt managed to defuse the situation. Directors Blake Edwards Starring Bruce Willis, James Garner, Mariel Hemingway Genres Suspense, Western, Drama Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English He was long gone from TV when I was born. Justus D. Barnes in Western apparel, as Bronco Billy Anderson, from the silent film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), the first ever Western film. Mix's last screen appearance was a 15-episode sound Mascot Pictures serial, The Miracle Rider (1935); he received $40,000 for the four weeks of filming. They ate lunch at Hollywoods legendary Musso & Frank Grill and Al Levys Tavern, known for hosting some of Americas greatest writers in their backrooms where liquor flowed freely throughout Prohibition. Didn't Bruce Willis play him in a film years ago? Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Corral, Wyatt Earp dies quietly in Los Angeles at the age of 80. The action lasted all of 30 seconds, but the story has been told and retold going on a century and a half. Corral was advising silent filmmakers in Hollywood and paling around with early Western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. American Western movies portray the early days of the expansion of the American frontier in late 19th century. Wow, what a story. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo led the first European exploration of the California coast and enslaved hundreds, historian Dan Krieger writes. Mix began his film career as a supporting cast member with the Selig Polyscope Company. His father's ancestor, Thomas Earp, was an Irish immigrant in the 1700s. "Go ahead, skin it! James R Earp is also a direct descendant of Wyatt Earp, the legendary lawman and deputy town sheriff from Tombstone who took part in the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral. In an era when influential individuals were pressing for Santa Monica to become the Los Angeles area port city, Parsons advocated preservation of that picturesque ocean resort. The couples primary Hollywood contact, though, was William S. Hart, the foremost Western star of the silent era. Several Earps were familiar with Grannan. Bottom line: Earp and Wayne never met. The posse feels secure as they ride from the stables at Richland Farms in rural Compton, safe both from street crime and police. Will Hunsaker, who practiced law in Tombstone when the Earps were in town, served as mayor of San Diego in 1888 and was a leading figure in California legal circles, eventually becoming president of the California Bar Association. Mix went to Oklahoma and lived in Guthrie, working as a bartender and other odd jobs. When Wyatt Earp died in 1929, the revolver was supposed to go to his niece's husband Bill Miller, whom Wyatt loved like a son, but Josie, Wyatt's widow in her incomparable fashion, gave it to silent screen actor Tom Mix, who was a friend of theirs. Little wonder he was a pallbearer at Wyatts 1929 funeral. For years he urged Wyatt to pen his autobiography and have a realistic film made about his life. A young 21 year old man by the name of Marion Morrison formerly of Winterset, Iowa, who went by the nickname "Duke" was working on a John Ford movie. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 - January 13, 1929) was an American law enforcement officer and businessman who worked in several places in the American West, including Dodge City, Kansas and Tombstone, Arizona Territory.He worked in a variety of trades and took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. He was arrested there at least three times and served briefly on the Wichita police force. Paralyzed by the sight of a big Navy revolver in the hands of Earp, one newspaper reported, Corbett very wisely did not strike. The story made headlines coast to coast. Days later he married Killeens widow, Mary, a chambermaid at the hotel. How old was Wyatt Earp when he met John Ford? For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on Oct. 26, 1881. Tom Mix had wandered into Prescott like a lot of other cowboys around 1900. Also his hat is enormous. (Library of Congress) Tom Mix, among few genuine Western cowboys to have starred in films, was a known companion of the Earps and attended horse races with Wyatt and Josie. The Tom Mix I knew through a radio script would have been proud that the posse was helping a town where Tony once roamed. Tom Mix was often portrayed in comic books, primarily during the heyday of Western-themed comics, the 1940s and 1950s. He was a pallbearer at Wyatts funeral (see photo at top of post), and until Hunsakers own death in 1933 Josie took her personal and financial issues to himprobably too often, as it is doubtful he would have allowed her to pay for his services. Thanks for sharing and for everyone's comments :). Arsenic was used to stop the physical occurrences of a corpse rotting by killing bacteria and insects that invaded it. That afternoon, Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Wyatt's friend John Henry "Doc" Holliday faced off against a rowdy group of outlaws known as the . I wonder if that's overcompensating? This custom of using arsenic was found to be poisonous by the 1900s and never used, All images are property of Echoes of the Southwest unless otherwise noted, All photos in this blog are copyright by Echoes of the Southwest. Many believe that he once was a 19th century cowboy, a con that loved to play cards. I believe had pics of Mix on his wall. The last remaining trailer finally crumpled and looks like a pile of rubbish. Other Earp associates from the Tombstone days became nationally prominent figures. ", Tom Mix was the acknowledged "King of Cowboys" when Ronald Reagan and John Wayne were young, and the influence of his screen persona can be seen in their approach to portraying cowboys. Tom clavin is a #1 new york times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and website editor, magazine writer, tv and radio commentator and a reporter for the new york. A 21-year-old bit-part actor at Fox Film Corporation met 79-year-old Earp in 1928. In 1932, he married his fifth wife, Mabel Hubbell Ward. Photography by C.J. His father, Nicholas Porter Earp, was a commanding figure, a sometimes frontier judge, whose other occupations included farmer, storekeeper, barrel maker, and still operator. After my grandfather passed, his nephews branched out in several countries, cities taking the circus acts around the world. Most mentions of Wyatt in the two decades after Tombstone originate from San Diego and San Francisco, where he engaged in his usual pursuitsgambling, mining, horse racing and the sporting life in general. My cousins travel and perform very often in Las Vegas at Circus Circus. Directors such as Sergio Leone, Howard Hawks, and John Ford helped in the popularization of the genre and influenced many other filmmakers and movie industries throughout the world. Who are the people at Wyatt Earps funeral? The idea is an alluring one: the place is Hollywood and the time, 1929, just as sound is coming in. Earp was the fourth of eight children born to Nicholas Earp and his second wife, Virginia Ann Cooksey. Earp at about age 39. He is probably the best-known lawman, but on the other hand, had been arrested several times during his life for various offenses, including horse theft, burglary, attacking a law officer, and consorting with prostitutes. You and Sharon really are a couple of adventurous gals! That was wild, the memorial location. OLD WEST MAGAZINE 1932 - Tom Mix, western actor and friend of Wyatt Earp going on tour. We have many black and white photos of my granfather dressed up as Charlie Chaplin. Among those who did attend were John Clum, an old friend from Tombstone days, and the big-screen cowboy stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Beach had better fortune as a novelist, his best-selling saga of Nome, The Spoilers, being adapted for the stage and screen, including five films. The swing set that was still set up finally fell down from the harsh environment. You must have written permission to publish or reproduce any of my photos. He stood out as a skilled horseman and expert shot, winning national riding and roping contests at Prescott, Arizona, in 1909, and Canon City, Colorado, in 1910.[4]. But as family members settled in Colton and San Bernardino, and Wyatt, Virgil and James followed the boxing and horse racing circuit, the brothersand sometimes father Nicholasfound themselves increasingly drawn to Los Angeles. Entertaining them was luckless prospector Rex Beach on his mandolin (Josie called it a banjo). The facts about Josephine Earp and her relationship to Wyatt were relatively unknown until amateur Earp historian Glenn Boyer published the book I Married Wyatt Earp. One of the greatest directors in film history, John Ford, also met Earp who often visited Fords film sets. Wyatt was unusually tall for that age. Anything Wayne knew about the real Earp came to him secondhand from Ford during their 25-year working relationship. In 1933, Ralston Purina obtained his permission to produce the radio series Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters, which, but for one year during World War II, was popular throughout most of the 1930s through the early 1950s, well after Mix's death. 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