Wyatt Dood

"WYATT, ARE YOU BECOMING A DAMN JEW BOY?” - Doc Holliday to Wyatt Earp, April 1882 Yesterday we commemorated the 145th anniversary of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the event which made Wyatt Earp famous that we remember him by. But, as always, there's more to the story...and it's kinda jewish. Lol Over his 80-year life, Earp lived all over the Western American Frontier: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, California and even Alaska. He worked in at least 10 different lines of business: farming, stagecoach driving, freight hauling, railroad construction, law enforcement, gambling, saloon management, real estate, mining, and horse racing. He also had documented involvement with brothels and later worked as an occasional film adviser in Los Angeles in the early days of Hollywood. Wyatt Earp's life embodies the very essence of the grand sweeping legend of America, bridging the gap from the wild & untamed frontier to the polished & modern American metropolis—so it makes sense that we'd remember him and tell his stories. He is all of us. But also, when it comes to Wyatt Earp, there's a little more to the story, an "X factor" that gives him a little wind-aided lift from Hollywood. That "X factor" was basically his jewish wife and her jewish family. His long time partner-wife of 47 years, Josephine Sarah Marcus, was a jewess born in New York to Prussian jewish immigrants. As a teenager, she'd gone west to seek out her own Great American adventure. Their paths crossed in Tombstone, AZ, the site of the aforementioned gunfight. At the time, she had been shacked up with Sheriff Johnny Behan. While it's not known exactly how she met Wyatt, it's thought that they might have been introduced by the local jewish merchant and newspaperman Sol Israel. After the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt's brother Morgan Earp was ass*ssinated in retribution. Wyatt, Doc Holliday and Co. went on their famous "Vendetta Ride" to find the killers and deliver some good old frontier justice. When Wyatt was done pursuing and killing those whom he held responsible for ass*ssinating Morgan, he fled to New Mexico to avoid legal problems while things cooled down. There he stayed with another jewish merchant & politician named Henry Jaffa, the first mayor of Albuquerque. Jaffa apparently had a mezuzah (jewish scroll of scripture) in his doorway that Wyatt would ritually observe. It was at this point that while they were having dinner at a local restaurant, Doc Holliday had had enough and said, "Wyatt, are you becoming a damn jew boy?" Earp was incensed & reportedly stormed out—and that's where the two parted ways and wouldn't see each other again for several years. Many decades later, in the final chapter of his life, Wyatt and Josephine moved to Los Angeles to try their luck in Hollywood. Their plan was to sell Wyatt's story and get a movie made. He became a consultant on various movie westerns, and got to know early Hollywood royalty like John Ford and apparently even a very young John Wayne. But Wyatt died before anyone took up his story. After he died, Josephine continued to curate his life story, and reportedly gatekept any negative portrayals of Wyatt (possibly by threat of lawsuit or by cutting off access to information. How jewish is that? Lol). She was also reportedly responsible for minimizing her jewish identity and Wyatt's jewish connections in portrayals of them in books, magazines and movies. For example, one account has him attending a Marcus family seder (jewish passover dinner) in San Francisco wearing a kippah. Can you imagine: Wyatt Earp in a kippah? Trading in the cowboy hat! Lol. Ann Kirschner, the jewish biographer of Sarah Marcus Earp quipped "Wyatt Earp had more Jewish friends than Sarah did." it's easy to see why Josephine kept that stuff quiet and out of the "Approved Narrative!" lol They're both buried in a jewish cemetery. So now you know the "rest of the story," and why Wyatt Earp has received—and continues to receive, at least in part—such favorable treatment by Hollywood. ****** I like to envision a deleted scene from "Tombstone" where Val Kilmer delivers that line to Kurt Russell, "Wyatt, are you becoming a damn jew boy?” Would have been absolute gold. Maybe someone with video AI skills can make that happen? A brief look at Wyatt & Josephine Earp, and their treatment by Hollywood: