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- One of the most interesting, and saddest, parts of the book is the end of Wyatt's life, living mostly hand-to-mouth in Los Angeles (according to Tefertiller, Sadie Marcus was a compulsive gambler, hence their poverty), going out for ice cream sodas** with a friend and the friend's 9-year-old granddaughter, and going up to Hollywood, where he met actors like John Wayne (still at that time Marion Morrison), Tom Mix... and Charlie Chaplin.
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Walsh took the two men to dinner at Al Levy's Cafe on Main and Third Street. During the meal, the highest paid entertainer in the world, Charlie Chaplin, dropped by to greet Wyatt Earp. Chaplin was impressed by both men, but particularly the former Tombstone marshal.
May 7, 2012 · While enjoying Levy’s famous oyster cocktails, Walsh’s table was visited by the highest paid entertainer in the world, Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin was in evident awe of both men, but particularly the former deputy marshal of Tombstone. Walsh remembered Chaplin saying to Earp, “You’re the bloke from Arizona, aren’t you?
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- After a Midwestern childhood, he headed to California by wagon train as a teen. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in Monmouth, Illinois, on March 19, 1848, and named for his father’s commander in the Mexican-American War.
- He was a lawman in the 'Wickedest Little City in the West.' By 1870, Earp got his first job in law enforcement, as town constable in Lamar, Missouri, where his family had relocated.
- Earp met Doc Holliday on the gambling circuit. Earp met fellow gambler John Henry “Doc” Holliday in Texas in 1878. Holliday, a Georgia native born in 1851, had studied dentistry in Philadelphia.
- He was arrested for murder after the gunfight at OK Corral. Earp arrived in the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1879, and eventually found periodic work as a law officer.
Jan 1, 2001 · There's something there--something about the fact that Wyatt Earp met Charlie Chaplin--that just fills me with wonder and delight. Although I still don't like Wyatt Earp very much, I like him better than I did before reading this biography.
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Wyatt Earp, legendary frontiersman of the American West who was perhaps best known for his involvement in the gunfight with an outlaw gang at the O.K. Corral (1881). He was established as a legend in part by a 1931 biography with which he assisted, though many of the claims were exaggerated or untrue.
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- Wyatt Earp was a legendary frontiersman of the American West. He was an itinerant saloonkeeper, gambler, lawman, gunslinger, and confidence man, bu...
- In 1881 Wyatt Earp and his brothers clashed with a local outlaw gang led by Ike Clanton. The conflict resulted in a famous gunfight at the O.K. Cor...
- Wyatt Earp died on January 13th, 1929, in Los Angeles, California.
- Wyatt Earp has been the subject of movies and books that furthered his legendary status, though these became less frequent in the 21st century. Not...
Nov 6, 2009 · Wyatt Earp, a famous figure from the American West, is best remembered for his participation in a deadly gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
According to contemporaneous accounts in the Tombstone Epitaph, Earp was present, but only one of a group of several lawmen including Virgil Earp, Johnny Behan, and Ben Sippy, then serving as City Marshal for Tombstone, a job for which he had beaten out Virgil Earp the preceding autumn.
