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History Features
The Wyatt Earp Mystery Car
- Published May 15, 2012
- Written by Bob Boze Bell
One photo has always intrigued me. It shows the legendary Wyatt Earp standing next to a fancy car in the 1920s. Although several websites claim the car was Earp’s, I find that to be highly doubtful.
You on the SET!
- Published May 07, 2012
- Written by TW Editors
With Johnny Depp riding around New Mexico this summer for Disney’s Lone Ranger—in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Shiprock and other locales—we thought it was high time for us to share some other popular locations where major Westerns have been filmed.
Wyatt On the Set!
- Published May 07, 2012
- Written by Allen Barra
His story, said Bat Masterson, was the story of the West. For years Wyatt Earp was reluctant to tell it. But as some began to resurrect his mythical past, Earp saw his name tarnished and his life exploited. In his old age, he wanted to bring his story to the screen—he knew the biggest names in movies, stars like William S. Hart, Tom Mix and Harry Carey, and America’s greatest writer, Jack London. His story would come to dominate Western movies, but things didn’t quite work out as he hoped..
Wyatt Earp’s First Film
- Published May 07, 2012
- Written by Paul Andrew Hutton
It was quite natural for Wyatt Earp to gravitate to Gower Gulch, the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, where unemployed Southwestern cowboys gathered daily in search of work in the new moving picture industry. Many old pals from his Arizona, Nevada and Alaska days were there. They would swap tales, warmly recalling the dead past as old men so often do.
Custer Saved the Nation
- Published May 02, 2012
- Written by Thom Ross
He is the man everybody loves to hate. George Armstrong Custer, once one of the most admired American military heroes, has become, in our time, one of the most hated figures from our past. He is now, at best, a national joke (“Custer wore arrow shirts!”) and the poster boy for American arrogance, blundering military stupidity and genocidal cruelty toward all Indians.
