How true are movies about Wyatt Earp
I just watched the western “Horizon, An American Saga, Cheaper 1” on Netflix. After being released in June of this year it wasn’t the biggest box office success, but I really enjoyed it. While this movie is a fictional western, stories about everyone’s favorite former US Marshall, Wyatt Earp are mostly accurate, based on reliable sources.
If not for Clint Eastwood’s classic, “Unforgiven,” the movie “Tombstone,” which involved the life of Wyatt Earp, would probably be what I consider the greatest western movie ever made. I’m willing to bet few people realize that was mostly true as well. Doc Holiday was a real person, and so were the other key characters in the movie, including Johnny Ringo, the bad boy antagonist of the Cochise County Cowboys. According to sources, he likely really was killed in a duo, which easily could’ve involved Doc Holliday, or Wyatt Earp. Although some scholars think it might’ve been a suicide. The famous gun fight at the OK Corral was also depicted very accurately. I could go on. If you look up the facts about Wyatt Earp, you’d be amazed just how accurate the movie “Tombstone” was. I didn’t like the movie “Wyatt Earp” with Kevin Costner as much, but a lot of that was correct, according to sources, as well. The man was a true American legend.
