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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born March 19, 1848, in Monmouth, Illinois. Wyatt’s dad was a soldier in the Mexican War. Wyatt was named after a guy that was the leader of his dad’s unit. Wyatt never really had a permanent home because his dad was a drinker and gambler. Because, of his dad’s gambling and drinking problem he moved his family around a lot and thats why Wyatt didn’t have a permanent home. When Wyatt was thirteen the Civil War broke out, Wyatt wanted to go fight for the union like his older

famous cowboy, Wyatt Earp, focusing on what led to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Tombstone provides a mixture of both fact and fiction, however I believe this film to be mainly accurate. After seeing this particular film, I have resulted in finding some of the accurate and incorrect scenes and facts. Just to name a couple of the films inaccuracies are the misleading facts about the

Biography of Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. His father Nicholas was a lawyer who preferred a life of farming. From an early age, Wyatt learned from his father to stand up for what was right. When Wyatt was two years old, the family moved to Iowa. In 1861, the Civil War broke out, and Wyatt's father and three older brothers joined the Union Army. Soon after, Wyatt ran away to enlist, but his father caught him and sent him back home

Tombstone: An Evaluative Essay Tombstone is a dynamic western adventure movie that is based around the life of Wyatt Earp, his family and close trusted friends. The main character in the movie is Wyatt Earp a successful lawman from Dodge City that has retired from law enforcement and moves to Tombstone, Arizona with his family. Wyatt, (Kurt Russell) his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot), Morgan (Bill Paxton), and their wives arrive in Tombstone with the intention of establishing their homes there and

“Tombstone”, the Wonderful Western About Wyatt Earp “You’ve called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it,” shouted Wyatt Earp to the cowboys, in the movie about his life, Tombstone. As you can tell by Wyatt Earp’s famous quote, Tombstone is a violent, interesting, and crazy movie. Tombstone is a movie full of fighting, death, reckless cowboys, guns, and more, in the city of Tombstone. It is attention grabbing, and once you start watching it, you won’t ever want to stop. Although Tombstone is

in the year 1993. Based on real events, this movie is about a man named Wyatt Earp, played by Kurt Russel, who is a retired officer that settles in a town called Tombstone with his two brothers. Later, they encounter a group of outlaws called the Cowboys which was led by Curly Bill and Johnny Ringo. Due to some conflict between the opposing sides, it causes a massive gunfight called the O.K. Corral in which the Earp brothers and long-time friend Doc Holliday, played by Val Kilmer, ultimately win

Wyatt Earp, a resigned peace officer with an outstanding notoriety, reunites with his siblings Virgil and Morgan in Tucson, Arizona, where they wonder on towards Tombstone, a little mining town, to settle down. There they meet Wyatt's long-time supporter Doc Holliday, a Southern player and master gunslinger, who looks for help from his exacerbating lung disease. Josephine Marcus and Mr. Fabian are also newly arrived in Tombstone with a travelling theater group. In the interim, Wyatt's custom-based

Ray Miss Dae Selcer ELA III 22 December, 2011 The American Old West: Myth versus Reality Western, a genre of short stories that are set in the American west, primarily in the late of the 19th century (“Western” 598), and still being told until today by films, televisions, radio, and other art works. The major of moving to the west was because of the Homestead Act, 1862 (“U.S. Statues at Large” 392) which would give lands to people who stayed there for five years. This lead to

Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind The Legend is a biography about the wild and crazy life of Wyatt Earp written by Casey Tefertiller. This book tells you a lot about Wyatt Earp and his family’s life and all the good and rough times they had. It tells you about the wild west and how they managed to live a good life and support their family. It tells you about some of the big arrests that Earp and his posse made. It tells you all the big events in Earp’s and his family’s lives. It tells you how Wyatt Earp

characterization of the Americans and the foreigners show how these nationalities were viewed at the time, with America being portrayed as the heroes and the foreigners being portrayed as the ‘bad guys’. We can observe this particularly in the scene where Wyatt Earp and his brothers enter the town of Tombstone for the first time, and encounter trouble at a bar where an Indian man, known as Indian Charlie, is threatening the townspeople. Wyatt steps up and saves the town from the drunk Indian, literally dragging