Dreams of a “fly-on-the-wall” moment in Western history certainly include sitting with Wyatt Earp in the 1920s as he set the record straight about his life and legend, including
his take on the 1881 Gunfight Behind the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory.
During Sunday visits to the Los Angeles cottage Wyatt shared with his wife, Josephine, Wyatt’s secretary John H. Flood Jr. captured every word.
For nearly 100 years, those shorthand notes—along with an early typed manuscript

True West March 2018
In This Issue:
Features
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Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Brian Downes
- Does Consumption Exist Today?
- Cattle, Cowboys and Culture
- Western Events for March 2018
- Back to Basque
- Sarah “Great Western” Bowman Reportedly Died of a Tarantula Bite. Is Tarantula Venom that Poisonous?
- Fake News Guru
- The Oatman Massacre
- What Happened to the Scalp that “Buffalo Bill” Cody Took from Cheyenne Warrior Yellow Hair at Warbonnet Creek in 1876?
- America’s First Cavalry Blade
- Gem City of the Plains
- Big Year for Custer Guns
- How are Cattle Brands read, and how do Ranchers select them?
- Sitting with Wyatt Earp
- Is Pancho Villa’s “Punitive Expedition” the same as the “Mexican Expedition?”
- The Suspect Savannah Strike