10 Facts About Wyatt Earp You May Not Know 

Wyatt Earp died only 13 years before I was born, some of my very younger grandchildren are that age and their 13 years had flown by very fast from when they were born, I hadn't realised just how close my birth was to the old west, now in my 80's I look back and realise just how fast time really goes by, treasure every minute of it if you can.

I've seen 3 of your videos and enjoyed them all!!! Have you done anything on Billy the Kid?

I'm related to Doc through the Gilbert family of Fayette county GA. Thanks for sharing this video and information. My girlfriend's grandfather was good friends of Wyatt Earp. He lived in Prescott Arizona.

Kurt Russell did a great job in depicting Wyatt Earp in "tombstone".

Here is a physical descriptions of Wyat Earp, the first from 1887: "Wyatt Earp, a man whose trigger finger had considerable to do in making the border history of the West, was in Denver for several days last week. He is tall and athletic. His eyes are blue and fringed with light lashes and set beneath blonde eyebrows. His hair, which was once as yellow as gold, is beginning to be stranded with white. A heavy, tawny mustache shades his firm mouth and sweeps below his strong, square chin. He wore ... a neat gray tailor-made suit, immaculate linen and fashionable neckwear. With a Derby hat and a pair of tan shoes, he was a figure to catch a lady's eye." The 2nd description was printed in 1926, almost 40 years later: "He was straight as a pine tree, tall and magnificently built. I knew he was nearly 80, but in spite of his snow white hair and mustache, he did not seem or look old. His greetings were warm and friendly. I stood in awe. Somehow, like a mountain, or desert, he reduced you to size." Of his friend, Doc Holliday, Wyatt had this to say to a news reporter in 1896: "I found him a loyal friend and good company. He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption and at the same time the most skillful gambler and nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew."

Tom Mix and William S . Hart carried Wyatt Earp's Coffin. He wanted his story told. After all this time. His story is being told. RIP Mr. Earp

He will always be a huge hero to me.I wish I'd had just 5 minutes of a conversation with him!

Wyatt "outliving all of his brothers" was an interesting take on the death of the 6 brothers. James died at the age of 84 1926 Newton died at the age of 91 1928 Wyatt died at the age of 80 1929

When a young football star at USC was injured and lost his scholarship, a fan who was a silent movie star decided to help him. This was Tom Mix, and he had the football player do odd jobs at the movie studio until he felt the athlete would be good as an actor in some of these western films being made. He hired a coach to teach the correct manner and persona of a real cowboy to the young actor. That actor, Marion Morrison, became John Wayne. Wayne always said that : "When you see me on the screen...it is not me....it is Wyatt Earp"....the young actor's "coach" !!

With all the cool stuff about Wyatt and brothers...the one that sends shivers is when the Earps and Doc Holiday get together wearing those long dust coats ..distribute guns and start walking toward Destiny. What ya sight that must have been. No Fear!!

You never spoke about him going to Alaska during the gold rush. They hit it big. Moved to L.A., where his wife did drugs and drank a lot. Wyatt Earp would die basically penny less because of her.

Wayatt Earp was very admirable perdón I like all the stories about him❤

"Josephine" was NEVER married nor lived as a common law wife with Wyatt (although she CLAIMED it for money!) and even bought a head stone with Wyatt's and HER name on it in San Francisco while Wyatt is buried in Elysian Fields in Orange County (near his horse ranch and orange groves) and you have his brothers WRONG and in the wrong order! The Eldest was Morgan named after his Father (and their middle names were ALL Berry, their Mother's MADIEN Name, a Scottish custom for CENTURIES!!!), then Virgil (My Great-Great Grand Uncle), then Wyatt, then James Then EDWARD the baby. I don't include his half-brother-as he didn't claim his half-brothers as family. Virgil's nephew "Virgil" is my Great-Great Grandfather, making me Wyatt's third cousin. The FIRST depiction of Wyatt Earp in the movies (PRONOUNCED "ARP"-IT"S SCOTTISH NOT IRISH!) was by TOM MIX in 1912!!! Wyatt explained to Tom Mix, that Mix was depicting cowboys TOO REALISTICALLY for movies with his Horse "Tony the Pony" and two or three pack horses and walking on foot half the time, and not galloping his horse, and using the correct era pistols instead of Colt's Peacemakers (not even invented in "The Old West") and single-shot rifles instead of 1894 Winchesters! With Wyatt's suggestions, Tom Mix became a superstar over-night and the second richest star in Hollywood! Wyatt met my Grandfather in 1928 in Paris, ARK. and told him the family pronounced the name "ARP" and part of the family SPELLS the name Arp (the construction foreman for Star Trek Voyager) so WE do.

Very interesting video! In the Fitzsimmons - Sharkey fight, if Wyatt had intended to throw the fight, he wouldn't have waited until the 8th round. Fitzsimmons clearly could have knocked Sharkey out in an earlier round. That a policeman took away Wyatt's handgun before the fight shows me that San Francisco was nuts, even in 1896. And I know San Francisco is nuts today, as I worked there for a number of years.

This is how historical accounts should be developed and produced and I especially like the references provided at the end under the music. This demonstrates a certain provenance of accuracy and honesty in the process of providing factual and accurate reliable information. Thanks.

The Wild West was an interesting era. I appreciate you setting the record straight and for doing this video.

I truly appreciate the effort it must take to look all this up and make a vid out of it, thank you. Keep up the great work!

In 1925 an 18-year old aspiring actor named Marion Morrison was talking with the technical advisor on a movie set. That young lad would go on to become the "Duke": John Wayne! He emulated Earp s mannerisms for the silver screen such as his speech pattern & stride of walking. What stories he could tell!

Great video, excellent research once again. ... I have done extensive reading on Wyatt Earp and there were 4 items I did not know, and one that I never thought of. ... One of them being how many siblings the man had, and the unthought item being what Ma and Pa Earp did in their spare time!

Fact # 12: Wyatt was never the town marshal in either Wichita, Dodge City or Tombstone. He was a deputy marshal. Fact # 12: Wyatt Earp never owned a “Buntline Special”. In fact there is no evidence that the Buntline existed prior to the TV show, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.

These newspaper clippings just show that people really did talk like they do in that series "Deadwood".

Enjoyed your video and the interesting facts on the life of Wyatt Earp. 💪🏼🙏🏻

Most of Wyatt Earp's "Legacy", came from, you guessed it, Wyatt Earp!

You had to be one super brave MFer to face off with the bandits of the 19th century in places like Dodge City and Tombstone.

My dad was a huge fan of cowboys. He loved Wyatt Earp. He thought there was no one like him. He also loved the movie Tomb Stone. Which is one of my favorite western movies as well. I appreciate this, very informal. Makes everything you thought, come together and makes sense.

Okay...so Wyatt didn't outlive all of his brothers. Two of them lived longer than he.

Having lived most of my life [I'm now 70] here in Wichita, KS, I know quite a bit about some infamous men of the old west, including J.B. 'Wild Bill" Hickok, Wm "Bat" Masterson, John "Doc" Holliday and Wyatt Earp, all of whom walked Wichita's streets at one time or another. While much has been written about Earp's time in Wichita, the truth is less than stellar. Firstly, he was a police Constable for only one year before getting fired for beating up Bill Smith who was running for Sedgwick County Sheriff against Earp's friend Mike Meagher. And during his single year here, Earp quickly earned a reputation for being an arrogant hothead as he pistol-whipped drunks in the saloons of Delano, the red-light district across the Little Arkansas River from Wichita proper; and it was among those whorehouses and saloons [and rarely "respectable" streets] that Earp patrolled. But among the Wichita Police force, he had another reputation: as a ruthless dog-killer. The sprawling Delano district was overrun with strays at the time and the City of Wichita paid a .25 bounty for every animal killed... and Wyatt Earp was soon supplementing his income by doing just that by killing 36 dogs in one month alone. These are just a few of the interesting facts that can be found in both the WICHITA EAGLE newspaper and official city records of 1875-76, the year that Earp was here. BTW: today Delano is a trendy retail area that studiously avoids any connection to its more sordid past! But my personal affiliation with the old west is more distinct, since my Great-Grandparents were shopkeepers in Abilene, KS, during the 1870's-80's and sold goods to the likes of Marshal Tom Smith, teenager John Wesley Hardin and Smith's replacement, Marshal"Wild Bill" Hickok, whose shack south of town was about 1/4 mile away from the home they built and it was in that same house my Mother was born in 1925. But by then a new family had erected their own home directly across Buckeye Street. That family were the Eisenhowers, and during the 30's my Uncles played football with future General and President Dwight "Ike" in the front yard whenever he was home from the army. And it was Mrs. Eisenhower that once taught my 12-yr old Mom to bake German Pfeffernusse cookies. It was a once a small world out here on the prairies of Kansas!

I love the music. If you keep on making these, I'll keep watching.

So Wyat Earp got married, officially, legally, but what happened to his wife, and at any time did he legally or officially get married again, and was he living with his common law wife, Josiphine when other wives still alive, even if abandon?

WYATT EARP MY BOYHOOD IDOL

He died the same year my mum was born.

Wild bill Hickok is my mothers great great uncle my mother's family is from Ohio...we have red hair...and evryone in my family is a Crack shot with pistols or rifles...

So Adelia seen the civil war, all of WW1 and early WW2

Earp's 1st wife is buried in Lamar MO. There was a lot of questions how the 18 year old died

My Great Great Grandfather was James Barton Kennedy and his great Grandfather Dr William Kennedy was Born in the Same town as Mifflin Kennedy [father of James Walworth (SPIKE) Kennedy] in Pennsylvania! Interesting coincidence!🤔😮

It was a pity no film or interview of Earp was ever made while he was alive. He was about film sets where there were cameras and sound movies were being made at that time. A short film would now be the only real western film in existence.

No mention of first wife? Buried just south of Milford Mo. His father was town marshall, l believe, of Lamar Mo.

An idea for a future video on the Duke. Misconceptions or urban myths on him

I remember years ago reading an article written by Wyatt Earp about his time as a lawman. He wrote something like the so called Wild West that you read about in books or see in the flickers would have you believe there were gunfights and killings numerous times every day.. he said that thankfully they were few and far between and the vast majority of his time as a lawman was spent, judging cake baking contests, refereeing boxing bouts, attending picnics and barn raising etc. it was on the whole peaceful and decent.

I loved the startreck tv serious with the shoot out at ok coral

Well looking at this picture of Wyatt Earp....Kurt Russell's image in the movie "Tombstone"....was uncanny....

the last piece of violin music was a fitting end. it brought to life the glory days of such great lawmen

Awesome little biography 🤝🏻

Wyatt Erp was used as a advisor on early westerns. During one of these mafia men tried to muscle in on the movie. Wyatt Erp flicked his duster from his 6 gun. Their response who do you think you are old timer Wyatt Erp. The response, Thats my name boy. The mafia men left sharply.

Another great western history video, thanks to Legacy of the west.

When he was in Wichita, I don't know of any men he killed, but as a dog catcher, he must've killed a few stray dogs.

It’s a shame they never got him on film before he died. He coached John Wayne as a boy. They had the tech to firm him. Wonder why they didn’t?

Interesting. And although I am not a Western Historian , it is more interesting to watch accurate presentations. Even though being from the region, not much interest in the history of people and places, then.............. In the 1970's because I got stranded near Earp , California, decided to then look up some western history. Finding out that a lot of it was total fabrication. There are to many Experts on Wyatt Earp. When he was asked how long the actual Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took, Earp said, maybe 1 minute. Put Every Movie and T.V. Scene Together, see how long it runs. Legendary History, all created from a single 1 minute, strange how no one ever seems to get bored with the story, no matter how it's told.

One very important fact is he was a criminal before he made his fame as a lawman facts.

I have an image of Wyatt standing alongside his horse with his hand on his revolver on his hip. Its definately him but I havent see it anywhere else. It must be out there because I found it on the net years ago and captured it to my collection of images of him.

Uh, I’m watching again good job…. I was interested to know about his wife. Because of two certain pop movies….was Wyatt married to the same lady or more than one? Just a suggestion for future work. Enjoyed and liked

I can just see Romeo camping it up as doc Holliday batman style!

Wyatt Earp , Wyatt Earp brave courageous and bold Long live his name and long live his glory and long may his story be told

I got to see the original bungalow / small house or what was left of it right when I started to work for the city of Los Angeles in the maintenance department general services. Wyatt Earp lived and died in Los Angeles . it’s a shame they didn’t place a Plaque were the original house was Before they built the school there. The home is no longer there. You wouldn’t know where it originally was unless I told you !

If you go to the channel on youtube called "life in the 1800s" there is a video where Virgil Edwin Earp. Wyatt earps nephew the one that they talked about in these questions is on a game show talking about the wild wild west. Wyatt earp got paid 250$ a month back in those days as marshall the equivalent of over $7,000 today and Virgil Edwin got $75/month as an officer. Crazy cool channel

Swell film !!! 👀❤ .... of the 10 facts , well i new a bunch and learned a few . Loved the music at the end . So Long for now !! from Toronto Canada 🤠 - 1/8/2024

Very interesting. Facts that I didn't know. Thanks.

the 3rd error in the newspaper article was they misspelled "Earp"

Good one.

I read that Wyatt didn’t like to ride a horse, and preferred to use a buckboard to travel about

Never new any of this ,well done. very interesting ,do more pls.

Oh my God if that picture of Wyatt Earp is real then tombstone and Kurt Russell got it exactly right cuz Kurt Russell looks exactly like Wyatt Earp in this picture

I love cowboy movies I just wish they would tell the truth sometimes though it would be nice to know how they really were what really happened but maybe it wouldn't be as exciting

Excellent history, they should show this at Wichita's Cowtown.

Interesting information.

He lived a few blocks from us, 4004 W 17th Street, LA (near Mt. Vernon Jr. High).

Wyatt allegedly engaged in some very unsavory behavior, - rather deceitful fraud being one thing. Understandably many dislike him. Leveling charges is one thing, believing them to be true is altogether something else entirely.

Yeah Kurt Russell in tombstone looks exactly like Wyatt Earp it's so on Candy it's so unbelievable he looks exactly like him

Are there any voice recordings of Wyatt Earp?

People still trying to make money on the ok corral

Interesting how paper spelled Earp “Erp.”

I used to think very highly of Wyatt Earp as a young adult through many years after learning who he was. Then I grew up. Wyatt was a thug who deprived many Americans of their enumerated Constitutional RIGHT to keep and bear arms. His anti second Amendment take has been an abomination to the spirit and purpose it was for, leaving many defenseless and at the mercy of villains as well as deluded that law enforcement was a practical means of protection within city limits. That sentiment has grown and metastasized to a naive fantasy plaguing those from what reality is, and setting them at odds to the design of that Amendment. Earp may have done extraordinary things, sure, but I'm in great disagreement as to how he went about "taming" the West. How many honest citizens of this country only became criminals because of his tyrannical seizure of arms? I hope people are looking at the consequences of his actions and not just enamored at his celebrity status.

Like the fact you did not repeat the often repeated lie that John Wayne and him had met in person. John Ford has met him but Wayne, while he was around, was never near Wyatt

I like the remake with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster but you didn't mention it. Why?

From 1978 to 1982 I had classmates named Wyatt and David Earp they were of some relation to the famous Wyatt Earp. They said Great-nephews. Both of the Earp brothers were from the Happy Valley School k-8 in Oklahoma. After 8th grade they had the choice of going to Cushing, OK or Stroud, OK. This put their families in the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma.

Frontier life Lots of good stories we'll never hear

Interesting

Funny how in the 50s one of the Erps was on a TV show, the 35 thousand dollar question. He was supposed to be vigil I think..

A great Black Country family....

Where is he when we need him. My front yard looks like a stockyard.

Any descendants of Earp still alive?

Erp died in los Angeles in 1929

Why in the world would Wyatt carry a 1851 Navy Colt in 1898? He didnt carry such in Tombstone in the earlt 1880s

Very good! Thank you!

I met Wyatt's great great grandson many years back. He was a traveling performer who did a one man show about Wyatt. Met him in the Golden Palace in Prescott AZ. off Whiskey Row.

I'm not on Medicare I'm a veteran so we don't get Jack Shit

Law and Order , with Walter Huston is my favorite of those mentioned. Good Screen Play, especially in that early time.

If you're going to do that voice I'm not looking up

I learned more about James Kennedy than what Wyatt Earp.

Great video 👍

Great videos

Leaning on the everlasting arms.

Not a boxing referee!

Well done 👏

As soon as I saw all those commercial bars I decided to delete your channel.

I know he earned $250 a month.

When Earp was arrested after the boxing match for wearing his firearm inside the ring, his fine was $50.00. There was a separate article in the newspaper about this, which included an accurate drawing of a very modern Colts revolver. I cannot fathom why this video said the weapon was an obsolete Colt Navy. Ridiculous. Not to mention that every single point covered in this video is known to all true Earpiana buffs and researchers.

Cool, thanks for sharing.

Let's go

Something most don't know. Wyatt lived in North Idaho. In a gold boom town called Eagle City, he owned a saloon called the White Elephant He ran farrow and mined the miners... even owned mines himself I call the campsite that I go to Wyatt's Place