The credits for Tombstone list a Wyatt Earp III in the cast. What is his relationship to the original Wyatt?
Bill Diamond
Windham, Maine
Glen Wyatt Earp III, cast in 1993’s Tombstone as Billy Claiborne, is the fifth cousin of the Old West legend.
None of the fighting Earps-—Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan and Warren—had sons, so no direct descendants bear the name Earp. An older half-brother Newton, however, did have sons. Apparently Wyatt III comes from his line, as does Wyatt Earp, an
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