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Starting to realize this is loaded with tabloid stuff touted as facts.


I just watched the Wyatt Earp episode and at one point they said Wyatt Earp never talked about or tried to cash in on his fame until right before his death. He wrote books you morons! He did appearances, he refereed prize fights. He had quite an adventurous life. He consulted on cowboy movies. Everybody knew who he was.

Not only that, but they act like nobody knows things like his wife was a prostitute. Even in the movies they alluded to his wife being a former prostitute. At one point on the show we're told it wasn't illegal in those times? Ohh yeah? :In February 1872, Peoria police raided the brothel, arresting four women and three men: Wyatt Earp, Morgan Earp, and George Randall. Wyatt and the others were charged with "Keeping and being found in a house of ill-fame". They were later fined twenty dollars plus costs for the criminal infraction. He was arrested for the same crime in May 1872 and late September 1872. Not illegal, huh? Not in Tombstone, you morons!

Never has it been established he actually was a pimp. This is a rumor. Real Historians would love to see evidence of that. There's no proof he made his wife continue prostituting after their marriage. But they state both those as facts instead of allegations.

"Known as the pimp of Peoria" I'll give you $10,000 for that writing? Ohh you heard it from credible source. of course...the producer telling you to liven this up is now a credible source?

After awhile they're just making stuff up, stuff they could easily read about and present the right facts. Like saying the Army didn't search McLaury's and find the mules, they did! McLaury then returned the mules and got into a heated fight back and forth with Army Captain Hurst. At this point the Eurps weren't involved. It was between Hurst and The cowboys, specifically Mclaury. So that fact was wrong that the mule incident led to the Shootout.

'Late in life he would walk onto movie sets to check out cowboy movies he loved'......what BS......he was hired by them as a consultant. Under the table!

What they're trying to do is make it look like he was the bad guy here, and died penniless and alone. He was an old man living simply, like many older people do. Living with Josie!

Boiled down to it's basics a bunch of Conmen, card cheats, grifters managed to get the upper hand on a bunch of cattle rustlers. Nobody was truly the good guys, or the bad guys. You could think of Eurp as a corrupt cop, who got away with things he shouldn't have, but the Cowboys weren't angels either.

But what's really shocking is these guys got into plenty of documented, substantiated stuff that isn't general public knowledge. THERE WAS NO NEED TO MAKE UP STUFF FOR YOUR SHOW!

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