Just a Pix of Wyatt Earp - 1923

[packman]

"Please smile Mr. Earp for the camera"
"Dammit, Boy, I am smiling!"

[femmocrat]

1. What a great photo!

Not what I expected.

[Aristus]

2. It's interesting to learn how many of the Old West icons lived into what we call the 'modern world'

When Wyatt Earp died, sound motion pictures were a thing.

Bat Masterson ended his days as a sports reporter for a New York newspaper.

Frank James was a ticket taker as a theater in St. Louis.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. You do know Wyatt Earp was a Republican, right?

He was a horse thief, ran a brothel for which he was arrested multiple times, stole money he had collected to support the local schools, described by one newspaper as "in a class of "contemptible loafers who impose on hard-working citizens," a "beggar," and worse than tramps. They were men of poor character who were chronic lawbreakers."

Yup, he was definitely a Republican.

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[Thor_MN]

5. You do know that Republicans were the progressives in that era, right?

Just saying.

[Binkie The Clown]

6. To tell the truth, I didn't know that.

Thanks so much for exposing my abysmal ignorance.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. True. The Democrats and the Republicans have pretty much flipped ideologically

from what they were in the 19th century. The Republicans were the liberal abolitionists before the Civil War but gradually became more pro-business through the early 20th century. After the stock market crashed and FDR became president the Democrats emerged as the liberals/progressives, except for the racist Dixiecrats of the South. For his time, Lincoln was the liberal.

[left-of-center2012]

8. Yes

I was thinking that too.

A decade or so earlier --> Teddy Roodevelt

[red dog 1]

4. "Looking at a photograph of the real Wyatt Earp...

...one wonders to what extent his legend followed him during his lifetime."

(From "Wyatt Earp - Looking for a Legend" by Larry Tritten)
http://www.jewishmag.com/41mag/wyattearp/wyattearp.htm


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