When John Wayne met Wyatt Earp One of the greatest mysteries of the golden era of Hollywood was the apparent meeting between future cowboy film star John Wayne and real-life Old West lawman Wyatt Earp. Read another story from us:The Hole-in-the-Wall hideout was the favorite hiding place for the Old West outlaw gangs. These 7 Foreigners Helped Win the American Revolution. In quieter times Bilicke and Earp had consummated mining deals in the same building. David D. de Haas Art of the West article about Victor Clyde Forsythe is online at Historynet.com. Reply Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on Oct. 26, 1881. Senator Hearst and son William Randolph Hearst were running the Examiner, Wyatt renewed their acquaintance. There is more to the Nevada angle. Their encounter is only a charming Hollywood fable. Wyatt Earp, in full Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, (born March 19, 1848, Monmouth, Illinois, U.S. died January 13, 1929, Los Angeles, California), legendary frontiersman of the American West, who was an itinerant saloonkeeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, and confidence man but was perhaps best known for his involvement in . There is no telling how often these fellows may have met, even in passing, in Los Angeles. Truth be told, Wayne wasn't a pallbearer at Earp's funeral (though two silent stars, Tom Mix and William S. Hart, were). Peabody became a nationally known figure in education and officiated at the wedding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (a former pupil of the reverends at Massachusetts prestigious Groton School for Boys, as were cousin Theodore Roosevelts four sons). Heroes and villains were sharply defined and a clean-cut cowboy always saved the day. OLD WEST MAGAZINE 1932 - Tom Mix, western actor and friend of Wyatt Earp going on tour. Corral. Little wonder he was a pallbearer at Wyatts 1929 funeral. One of the worlds most successful book publishers is on the list of Wyatt Earp acquaintances. Later Wyatt tried his hand at buffalo hunting there is a good possibility this is when Wyatt met Bat Masterson. In California, Wyatt Earp also befriended a young actor named Marion Morrison who would laterchange his name to John Wayne and would become an American acting icon. He wouldnt have lasted long in Kansas. Wyatt Earp knew what went down in Kansas. Wyatt's body was cremated. In 1910, he appeared as himself in a short documentary film, Ranch Life in the Great Southwest, in which he displayed his skills as a cattle wrangler. I believe had pics of Mix on his wall. [4], A small stone memorial marks the site of his death on State Route 79, and the nearby gully is known as "Tom Mix Wash". He had used the stables at Alondra and Santa Fe avenues to launch Tom Mixs circus in 1936, prior to traveling to San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles and then on to a Pacific Coast tour. Immersed in the Herefords history in Eagar, AZ, sits the 26 Bar Ranch. The Baldwin-Earp affiliation spanned virtually the entire Pacific Coast. . Some of his movies were filmed in his Prescott home. Answer (1 of 5): Yes and it was awesome or at least the legend is. When Morgan Earp was assassinated in the days after the O.K. The United States Postal Service has commemorated Mix on a first-class mail postage stamp. 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. The list of Californians in the Earp orbit is particularly impressive. In 1929, Tom was a pallbearer at the funeral of his good friend Wyatt Earp. The memorial consists of a bronze-green spiral of sprocketed "camera film" above a multi-sided tower, embossed with full-length likenesses of early stars who appeared in famous silent movies. Professor of History, Emeritus at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. Hart met and corresponded with them frequently from his ranch north of Los Angeles. These featured action-oriented scripts contrasted with the documentary style of his work with Selig. From his Washington office in 1928 Senator Oddie recalled that in those days Wyatt Earp and 15 others of similar spirit were mustered to protect our claims from squatters.. julie.a.fergie@gmail.com, Noftsger Hill Inn: Once a School Now a Haunted B&B. He was six feet tall, which for today is not that unusual, but in the 1870s when the height for the average man was probably 5' 5", Wyatt was a tall man. WW. History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. His son Jesse succeeded him as district attorney and later served on the California Supreme Court. [citation needed]. Actors William S. Hart and Tom Mix served as pallbearers at the funeral. He sounded like a real character. He had a lot of odd jobs around town. Tom Mix, one of the few genuine cowhands to star in Westerns, was an Earp friend and fellow horse racing aficionado. He was Hollywood's first Western star and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.[1]. I have heard of him because he was in one my favorite western. Earp at about age 39. Meanwhile, the Great Depression (along with the actor's free-spending ways and many wives) reportedly had wiped out most of his savings. 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. Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. Bad idea. Entering the ring, he proceeded to kick and otherwise abuse the challenger. Ford later used the sketch to film the fight in My Darling Clementine. In 1905, Mix married Kitty Jewel Perinne, and this marriage also ended within a year. 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. Tom Mix 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. His unit never went overseas, and Mix later failed to return for duty after an extended furlough when he married Grace I. Allin on July 18, 1902. Most of Mix's radio work has been lost over the years; recordings of only approximately 30 scattered episodes, and no complete story arcs, survive. The 80 year old Wyatt Earp was th. Nicholas served as justice of the peace and Virgil as chief of police in Colton, while James ran a San Bernardino saloon. 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. "The real story of the Old West can never be told unless Wyatt Earp tells what he knows, and Wyatt will not talk," said perhaps the oldest of those friends, William Barclay "Bat" Masterson. When refereeing the controversial 1896 Fitzsimmons-Sharkey bout, Wyatt Earp became all too familiar with Judge James G. Swinnerton and son Jimmy, a budding cartoonist at William Randolph Hearsts Examiner. The year was 1928. The Earp brothers had long been competing with the Clanton-McClaury ranching . Growing up, Mix was my hero. However, there is no other character mentioned more often in films or on television than Wyatt Earp. And to think the Earps would reconnect with many of them for one last hurrah in the early decades of the 1900s. Young Swinnerton went on to become a leading cartoonist for the San Francisco and New York papers. He lived down the street from me. . A notorious lush, the politico almost certainly patronized Nomes Dexter Saloon and Tonopahs Northern Saloon, both Earp operations. Corralscene of the 1881 shootout. He died in a crash in his Cord Phaeton several months after I was born. In later years he hosted Earp, Parsons, Blinn, Buckskin Frank Leslie and other former Tombstoners in his massive San Francisco book emporium. He is past President of the California Mission Studies Association, now part of the California Missions Foundation. Wyatt Earp died on January 13, 1929. By then, Selig Polyscope had encountered severe financial difficulties, and Mix and Forde both subsequently signed with Fox Film Corporation, which had leased the Edendale studio. Tom Mix became very close friends with Earp and even tried to convince some of the most influential people in Hollywood to make a film about Earps legendary gunfight, but his efforts were fruitless. Circo Fuentes. 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. The 36-page comics were available by mail order, for two boxtops of any Ralston cereal.[19]. In 1985 Blake Edward's released his movie Sunset which told the fictionalized story of Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp in a Hollywood caper together after meeting on the set of a silent movie. The Earps ties to such noteworthy figures deserve a deeper look. He died peacefully at the age of 81 with his wife Josie at the bedside. John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 - November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist. 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. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848 - 1929) was an American farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, and miner. He was born in 1848, in Monmouth, Illinois. [16][17] Additionally, from 1986 to 2002 there existed another museum in his birthplace of Mix Run, Pennsylvania. 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. Another nationally known figure with Earp ties was boxing legend James J. 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. He would have seen the Earps almost daily in Sawtelle, as James was running illicit booze, and father Nicholas and eldest son Newton also lived in the Old Soldiers Home. Coincidentally, he was also related to Williamson Dunn Vawter, an influential pioneer of both Pasadena and Santa Monica. Clum died in Los Angeles in 1932. The Earp brothers - Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan - and their wives, including Mattie Earp, all group together at the train station, building the themes of family and loyalty that lie at the heart of the Tombstone story. I sent in Hot Wheat box tops and a dime to receive a Tom Mix periscope to help detect Nazi saboteurs. Was John Wayne a pallbearer at Wyatt Earps funeral? Special to The Tribune. Attorney William J. Perhaps it was here that he began his career as a "play actor." The Earps and Curtises dont appear to have been social intimates in San Bernardino County, but they moved in similar circles. The set also included a simulated desert, a large corral, and (to facilitate interior shots) a ranch house with no roof. Their encounter is only a charming Hollywood fable. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. Days later he married Killeens widow, Mary, a chambermaid at the hotel. Eventually, John Wayne became one of the most popular film actors of the 20th century, and with the help of the famed lawman, Wyatt Earp, he createdthe model for the iconic hero of the American West. One would have to search far and wide to uncover another family with such diverse, influential and historically significant Western connections. And I always a appreciate a fella who can pull of the white cowboy hat look. The ranch had its own touring Wild West show in which Mix appeared. Mix did his own stunts and was frequently injured. Shot in Dewey, Oklahoma with Selig studio cameramen,[5] the film was a success, and Mix became an early motion picture star. Thereafter, the names of Doc Holliday and the Earps . An alcohol-fueled James cursed Grannan and demanded they shoot it out with revolvers. ( reveals badge) You see that?" Wyatt: "It says United States Marshal!" Clanton: "Wyatt, please, I" Solomon, a merchant and member of the Tombstone Common Council and Cochise County Board of Supervisors, had presented a Winchester to the rifleless Holliday as the Earp party left town on their vendetta ride. He was arrested there at least three times and served briefly on the Wichita police force. What once was a trailer park or graveyard, now looks like a junkyard. My cousins travel and perform very often in Las Vegas at Circus Circus. Although some say Call of the Wild author London first knew Wyatt in Alaska, they most likely didnt meet until later in California. By the late 1880s, he. Corral hearings, also lived in Los Angeles for years but doesnt seem to have had much contact with the Earps. Stories are told that he finally got caught cheating and was shot in the stomach. Earp refereed a controversial championship boxing match. As American society changed, the Western genre also underwent atransformation, and many issueswere presented in a different way than ever before. 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. Mix appeared with the Sells-Floto Circus in 1929, 1930, and 1931 at a reported weekly salary of $20,000 (equivalent to $316,000 in 2021). That was the beginning of Wayne's Hollywood career. Mother & Father of Wyatt Earp For several years, Wyatt became an unpaid technical consultant on Hollywood Westerns, drawing on his colorful past to tell flamboyant matinee idols like William Hart and Tom Mix how it had really been. Earp at about age 39. Robertson became the publisher and close associate of such famed authors as London, Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Robert Louis Stevenson. That can get you a lot of hard time." Wyatt is actually a cousin and while he died long before I was born, his legend has long shadowed my life, he said. Mix appeared with the Sells-Floto Circus in 1929, 1930, and 1931 at a reported weekly salary of $20,000 (equivalent to $316,000 in 2021). 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. Gen. Carr had stepped down as head of the Washington National Guard to join the gold rush. [citation needed]. A close friend and favorite employee of the famed newspaper publisher (and Earp acquaintance), Jimmy later earned acclaim as one of the Southwests preeminent Painters of the Desert. He befriended fellow desert painter Victor Clyde Forsythe, whose parents and uncle were merchants in Tombstone in the early 1880scontemporaries with the Earp brothers there and later in Los Angeles. "Compton Cowboy" Anthony Harris says, They dont pull us over or search us when were on the horses.. Mix had been one of L.A. County Sheriff Eugene Biscaluzs honorary Sheriffs, so he could legally own the weapon. 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. When we first laid eyes on it, there were several trailers still sitting on the land. Tom Mix (Bruce Willis) is going to make a film based around real events in the life of Wyatt Earp (James Garner)and so they wheel earp out to Hollywood as an advisor in the film. Earp had become an advisor for cowboy movies. Email me for permission. Mix was seen openly crying at Earp's funeral. You could say Fly knew the Earps up close, as his studio abutted the vacant lot behind the O.K. In the sporting world of bookmakers and plungers (high-risk gamblers), Riley Grannan stood out from New York to San Francisco. They married in 1918 and had a daughter, Thomasina (Tommie) Mix, in February 1922.[3]. a friend from the Alaska days and early Hollywood western stars Tom Mix and William S. Hart as pallbearers. Interior Secretary Albert B. When the gunfight broke out, Ike Clanton hid in Flys studio, and the photographer personally disarmed Ikes mortally wounded brother Billy. For further reading see the authors 2020 book The Earps Invade Southern California: Bootlegging Los Angeles, Santa Monica and the Old Soldiers Home (reviewed in the February 2021 issue and online at Historynet.com). I wonder if that's overcompensating? It was first known as the Milky Way Ranch in the 1940s with its big white show barn which housed many Hereford cattle. Tom Mix was a friend of Wyatt Earp in the 1920s. A peer of Tom's and used to play Tarzan and Buck Rogers. Fantastic, all these great stories. Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp and family associated with an assortment of Western characters before, during and after their tumultuous time in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Corral fight, founded the historic St. Pauls Episcopal Church and immersed himself in the communitys social and sporting circles. Nonetheless, Earp and Wayne did share several qualities. Hunsaker, Arizona Territory diarist George Parsons, former Tombstone mayor and newspaper editor John Clum, actor William S. Hart, playwright Wilson Mizner and actor 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. He later encountered both Wyatt and Parsons while serving as a postal inspector and postmaster in Alaska from 1898 to 1909. I loved reading your story about your grandfather. Richard Dick Girdwho made a fortune setting up the Tombstone mining district and went on to found Chino, Calif., in 1910reconnected with Wyatt in the early 1890s through the Los Angeles horse racing circuit. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo led the first European exploration of the California coast and enslaved hundreds, historian Dan Krieger writes. I appreciate you coming here to tell it. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.. Photography, history, and stories from all my treks plus crafts, antiques, art, and much more My great-great uncle was a stunt man for Tom Mix. Anything Wayne knew about the real Earp came to him secondhand from Ford during their 25-year working relationship. Three were intact, while one was about to collapse. In 1959, a "Monument to the Stars" was erected on Beverly Drive (where it intersects Olympic Boulevard and becomes Beverwil) in Beverly Hills. Fawcett Comics published 61 issues of Tom Mix Western from 1948 to 1953. Griggers was a crack pistol shot and could shoot the band off a cigar, leaving the cigar intact. The following month the track featured the running of the Hollenbeck Stakes, and the onetime saloon partners had horses in races. In the wake of the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight Grannan was among those who lambasted Wyatts decision in the press. Never heard this story though! As True West tells us, Bat was out on the plains with his brother, Ed . 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. The Ralston Purina Company, a sponsor of the radio series, produced nine issues of Tom Mix Comics in 19401941, and three issues of Tom Mix Commandos Comics in 1942. Wyatt Earp's actual life story, though, was more complicated than the romantic legend. Those memorialized include Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Will Rogers, Conrad Nagel, Rudolph Valentino, Fred Niblo, Harold Lloyd, and Mix. 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 1900 Lucky and Wyatt met over a few glasses at the Earp-run Dexter Saloon in Nome, Alaska. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. 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. When an injury caused football player Marion Morrison (later known as John Wayne) to drop out of the University of Southern California, Mix helped him find work moving props in the back lot of Fox Studios. Also associating with Wyatt and Josie in Rampart and Nome were U.S. He accepted the position of deputy sheriff for eastern Pima County, where the town of Tombstone was located. Parsons stopped keeping a diary that year. Due in part to his tenacious efforts, San Pedro wound up with the port facilities. Mix performed in more than 100 films for Selig, many of which were filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico. There are many strange stories in the Arizona files. Mix began his film career as a supporting cast member with the Selig Polyscope Company. A small stone memorial marks the site of his death on State Route 79 between Florence and . 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). Who was wyatt earps honarary pallbearers? Corral gunfight Spicer Hearing and served in the Arizona Territorial Legislaturelater bounced between Tombstone and Los Angeles, where he was the attorney of choice for the mining empires of Eliphalet Butler Gage and Colonel William C. Greene. Who are the people at Wyatt Earps funeral? The action lasted all of 30 seconds, but the story has been told and retold going on a century and a half. [15] The marker bears the inscription: "In memory of Tom Mix, whose spirit left his body on this spot and whose characterization and portrayals in life served to better fix memories of the old West in the minds of living men. ", 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. Nick's temperament was an odd mix of Unionist principles and loyalty to the . By the mid-1920s, the hero of the gunfight at the O.K. He was a close friend to cowboy actors William S. Hart and Tom Mix. 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. Wyatt spent his final years in California. In 1905, Mix rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade with a group of 50 horsemen led by Seth Bullock, which included several former Rough Riders. McGraw had recently served as the second governor of Washington state and was a former sheriff of King County, while Brig. The trio had already made their mark in Tombstone. Tom Mix was a friend of Wyatt Earp in the 1920s. Indeed, some consider him the father of the comic strip, having drawn his first for Hearst in 1892. In July 1890 one of the races was dubbed the Nadeau Handicap, while entered in other races were mounts belonging to both Wyatt Earp and Lou Rickabaugh, a former partner of Wyatts in the gaming concessions at Tombstones Oriental Saloon. By Dan Krieger Corral shootout, Mattie was sent to live with Wyatt's parents in California. 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 1864 they joined the California-bound caravan led by cantankerous Nicholas Earp and family, a trek documented in the diary of fellow traveler Sarah Jane Rousseau. There is also a Tom Mix museum in Dewey, Oklahoma. In the summer they retreated to Los Angeles, where Wyatt struck up relationships with some of the early cowboy actors, including William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Apologizing for his brothers outburst, Wyatt managed to defuse the situation. John Wayne and Louis Johnson. Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens." For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street. Anything Wayne knew about the real Earp came to him secondhand from Ford during their 25-year working relationship. The kind of man who had lots of acquaintances but just a few long-term, true friends. The Ralston company offered ads during the radio program for listeners to send in for a series of 12 special RalstonTom Mix comic books available only by writing the Ralston Company by mail. Associates from northern California included jockey Tod Sloan. I imitated his walk; I imitated his talk. In 1929, Tom Mix and fellow cowboy actor, William S. Hart, were two of the pallbearers at Wyatt Earp's funeral. 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Wyatt Earp married Urilla Sutherland in Lamar, Missouri on January 10, 1870. [11] The newspapers reported that Mix cried during his friend's service.[12]. He would purchase the animals at Griffith Park. I'm not sure if he married Victoria but the did have a hot love affair with her.Les, I enjoyed reading about him too. Amid the literati, Mix felt that the trio should become cultured. Tombstone attorney Goodrichwho had represented Ike Clanton as a prosecutor in the 1881 postO.K. [10] He was a pallbearer at Earp's funeral in January 1929. in the movie TOMBSTONE WITH KURT RUSSELL..at the end Robert Mitchum narrates and said "among the pallbearers was TOM MIX..TOM MIX WEPT. In 1932, he married his fifth wife, Mabel Hubbell Ward. On an October afternoon in 1940, Tom Mix was driving his 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton near Florence doing 80 mph. Wow, what a crummy way to go. Usually, the horses suffered from neglect, abuse and malnourishment. In 1893 the lawman had a leading role in ending the depredations of the Sontag-Evans gang in California. 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. Since the dawn of film, the indigenous American art form known as the Western genre shaped American society and throughout the years it became an iconic part of American culture. I love stopping at all those road side markers to learn what they are about. Mix then appeared with the Sam B. Dill circus, which he reportedly bought two years later (1935). Operating the restaurant at the Nadeau was Hyman Solomon. [2] He spent time working on a local farm owned by John DuBois, a lumber businessman. As the story goes, Corbett was in San Bernardino in May 1892, giving an exhibition and observing other matches. Wyatt Earp married Urilla Sutherland in 1870, but she died a short time afterwards. George Washington had complained vociferously about the flood of questionable foreign volunteers. Tensions rose between the Earp clan and the McLaury and Clanton families, ranchers who supplied the town with beef by stealing cattle and squatting on public lands. Tom Sizemore portrayed Masterson in the 1994 movie Wyatt Earp. One of the icons of the American West, Wyatt Earp worked for the law and helped tame the wild cowboy culture that pervaded the frontier. In 1903, when the Hearst newspaper empire opened an office in Los Angeles, it set up in the Bilicke Building, reasserting the old Tombstone connections. [14] Mix never appeared on these broadcasts (his voice, damaged by a bullet to the throat and repeated broken noses, was not fit for radio) and was instead played by radio actors: Artells Dickson (early 1930s), Jack Holden (from 1937), Russell Thorsen (early 1940s) and Joe "Curley" Bradley (from 1944). The premise of tom mix and wyatt earp buddying up to work on a hollywood movie in 1929 makes a nice playground for a movie and although the characters are very thinly drawn (and. Local legend was that Mixs horse, Tony, died in Compton out of grief following his owners death. You and Sharon really are a couple of adventurous gals! I was a Tom Mix Straight Shooter, always asking for Ralston Hot Wheat and later Wheat Chex cold cereal except when my loyalty briefly shifted to the Lone Ranger after meeting Brace Beemer, who played the masked hero on the radio. They donated the land for Doheny State Beach, in Dana Point, Calif., the surfing strand celebrated in the Beach Boys 1960s hits Surfin Safari and Surfin U.S.A. When finances were strained, a widowed Josie Earp reportedly contacted Doheny to the point of pestering.
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