The other night the 1946 John Ford film My Darling Clementine popped up on one of the channels. I've always enjoyed the film, not for its historical accuracy because it isn’t, but for Henry Fonda, Walter Brennan and the spectacular Monument Valley setting.
I seriously doubt that Ford got any of that information from the Wyatt Earp as he claimed. Wyatt wasn't a talkative guy. Lake put a lot of

True West March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
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- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
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