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Wyatt Earp was the last surviving Earp brother and the last surviving participant of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral when he died at home in the Earps' small rented bungalow at 4004 W 17th Street, [143] in Los Angeles, of chronic cystitis on January 13, 1929, at the age of 80.
One of the most well known, and for many years respected, books about Wyatt Earp was the book I Married Wyatt Earp, originally credited as a factual memoir by Josephine Marcus Earp. Published in 1976, it was edited by amateur historian Glenn Boyer, [70]: 4 [71] and published by the respected University of Arizona Press.
Sadie, traveling as either Mrs. J. C. Earp or Mrs. Wyatt Earp, left for Los Angeles on March 25, 1882, [73] and then returned to her family in San Francisco. In July 1882, Wyatt left Colorado and went to San Francisco, [ 74 ] where he sought out Sadie and his brother Virgil, who was seeking treatment for his arm.
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is the first Western television series written for adults. [1] [2] It premiered four days before Gunsmoke on September 6, 1955. [3] Two weeks later came the Clint Walker western Cheyenne. The series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp.
Wyatt Earp both directly and indirectly influenced the way movies depict lawmen in the American Old West. While living in Los Angeles, Earp met several well-known and soon-to-be famous actors on the sets of various movies. He became good friends with Western actors William S. Hart, [12] and Tom Mix. [13]
Wyatt Earp, a long-time admirer of fine horse breeding, frequented the race track when he and his wife Josephine were in Los Angeles. [20] Josephine wrote in I Married Wyatt Earp that she and Wyatt were married in 1892 by the captain aboard Baldwin's yacht.
John Henry Flood Jr. (January 16, 1878 – March 29, 1958) was a mining engineer who worked as Wyatt Earp's unpaid personal secretary late in Earp's life, completing the only authorized biography of Earp. The language Flood used in the biography was overblown, florid and stilted so he was unable to find a publisher.
But the book, “Wyatt Earp (1869-1870) The Lost Story,” by author Marshall Bulle and investigator Gary Stover suggests the rare photos came to the area more than 150 years ago and may have been ...