Maybe I missed something in the beginning which I didn't see, but where does Wyatt go in the end after telling doc he is going to Tombstone. Then he tells the other guy he's not, but I don't know where he said he was going.
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I was going to say "Disney World", but that would be too easy, and not the information you were looking for. I can't say I'm an Earp researcher, like some people I know of, but I've read quite a bit on the subject. First of all, this movie is full of pseudonyms for real people, and their actual names. Second of all, the movie never really states where Wyatt is going, after he leaves Doc. Lastly, Ike Clanton was killed in Mexico, around 1887, the same year Doc died, during a robbery, killed presumably by Mexican authorities, and not Wyatt Earp.(This movie takes place in 1882 during Wyatt Earp's so-called, "Vengeance Ride").
Wyatt and Doc did end up in Colorado in 1882, because there was an active warrant for their arrest for the murder of Frank Stilwell, in Arizona territory.(I believe his name in this movie was Warshaw). There wasn't the same kind of cooperation between states and/or territories back then, regarding extraditions. Besides that, Wyatt still had his federal commission as a U.S. Marshal, and the Pima County Sheriff (Tucson), where Stilwell was killed, was a friend of Wyatt Earp's, and believed the killing was self defense. It is the shotgun shooting at the Tucson train station scene, in both the "Tombstone" and "Wyatt Earp" movies.
At some point in 1882 or 1883, Wyatt returned to California, hooked up with his love interest, Josephine Marcus (the ex-fiance of Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, called Johnny Bryan in this movie), and returned to Colorado to do some prospecting in the Colorado mines. Later, in the 1890's, Wyatt and "Josie" as she was called, did very well financially in San Diego real estate speculation, went on to the Alaska gold rush at the turn of the century, where they alternately gold mined, gambled and bartended. They ended up doing this for several years all over the west, before they finally settled in Los Angeles, after squandering several medium sized fortunes.
Wyatt and Josie spent Wyatt's last years in L.A., where Wyatt became somewhat a semi-celebrity, within the fledgling film industry, as a western movie technical advisor, and a friend to director John Ford as well as actor Tom Mix. Wyatt died in L.A in 1929 and Josie died in 1944. Their ashes are buried in Colma CA., just south of San Francisco, Josie's home town.
Outstanding answer. Thank you for taking the time to put it all down. You have piqued my interest in Wyatt and I guess I will head out to the library and look for some books on him.
Bob
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Actually, the movie accurately portrays the man Earp kills at the train station in Tucson as Stilwell. Warshaw (played by that great character actor Steve Ihnat) is killed later.
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Civilian burials are no longer allowed in the city of San Francisco. The burials of most residents now take place in Colma, on the southern border of the city.
Because of the inevitable earthquake, San Francisco is known as "the city that waits to die."
By extension, Colma is known as "the city that waits for 'the city that waits to die' to die."
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