From: john-dean@fraglineone.net   
      
   Cuteypie wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > gkincaid000@centurytel.net says...   
   >>   
   >> Thanks. I've heard Wyatt Earp had something to do with the early   
   >> westerns. Was he an actor? Maybe what we would call a consultant...   
   >> "Dave in Toronto"   
   >   
   > Earp eventually moved to Hollywood, where he met several famous and   
   > soon to be famous actors on the sets of various movies. On the set of   
   > one movie, he met a young extra and prop man who would eventually   
   > become John Wayne. Wayne would later tell Hugh O'Brian that he based   
   > his image of the Western lawman on his conversations with Earp.   
      
   John Ford claimed acquaintance with Earp and said that Earp told him about   
   the OK Corral and how it happened. Ford made "My Darling Clementine" anyway.   
      
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