For the time they lived in town, Buckskin Frank and the Earp brothers saw each other almost daily. In April 1882, after the Earp/Holliday party had left Tombstone on their vendetta ride, the Cosmopolitan welcomed General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had replaced Ulysses S. Grant as commanding general of the Army in 1869 after Grant was elected president. Tom Mix had wandered into Prescott like a lot of other cowboys around 1900. Are there any living relatives of Wyatt Earp? Fly, revered for his rare images of the frontier Southwest and Mexico, got his start in Tombstone. NEW YORK, March 5 (UPI) -- Schitt's Creek alum Tim Rozon said it hasn't been easy bidding farewell to Doc Holliday, the immortal gunslinger he played for four seasons on Syfy's contemporary. Director John Ford hired John Wayneas a prop boy and extra, so he had the opportunity to meet Wyatt Earp. . Wyatt Earp's actual life story, though, was more complicated than the romantic legend. While there, Earpbecame good friends with many famous actors of the early Western movies, including William S. Hart and Tom Mix. About Wyatt Earp. One of the greatest directors in film history, John Ford, also met Earp who often visited Fords film sets. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mix has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street. [4] He was 60 years old. He took the peace and being a peace officer quite literally. The Last Days of Wyatt Earp. While with Selig he co-starred in several films with Victoria Forde, and they fell in love. Anything Wayne knew about the real Earp came to him secondhand from Ford during their 25-year working relationship. The Compton Cowboys dont just rehabilitate animals, they help correct a false image of the Old West. In 1952 Forsythe painted a well-received, accurate depiction of the Gunfight at O.K. Sadie Marcus Earp lived as a widow in LA until her death in 1944. As the story goes, Corbett was in San Bernardino in May 1892, giving an exhibition and observing other matches. On leaving Arizona Territory in 1898, restaurateur/hotelier/miner Nellie Cashman spent another quarter century as an entrepreneur, marked by notices in the mining journals as well as The New York Times. In 1903, when the Hearst newspaper empire opened an office in Los Angeles, it set up in the Bilicke Building, reasserting the old Tombstone connections. He next married Olive Stokes on January 10, 1909, in Medora, North Dakota. That feller Hamlet was a talkative man. Unable to stop in time, his car swerved twice, then overturned in a gully. The highway patrol found $6,000 in cash, $1,500 in traveler checks and a sack of diamonds worth a fortune in the wreckage. The 36-page comics were available by mail order, for two boxtops of any Ralston cereal.[19]. After my grandfather passed, his nephews branched out in several countries, cities taking the circus acts around the world. Welsa, thanks for adding that bit of information. Nadeau, a leading freighter in the region, had purchased mining property in Tombstone from the Earps. I was a Tom Mix Straight Shooter, always asking for Ralston Hot Wheat and later Wheat Chex cold cereal except when my loyalty briefly shifted to the Lone Ranger after meeting Brace Beemer, who played the masked hero on the radio. And I always a appreciate a fella who can pull of the white cowboy hat look. Local legend was that Mixs horse, Tony, died in Compton out of grief following his owners death. In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. The Curtis family of San Bernardino must have encountered Earps many times over the half century ending in 1930. There is no telling how often these fellows may have met, even in passing, in Los Angeles. In Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt got into a feud with a. He sounded like a real character. 3 What did John Wayne say about Wyatt Earp? The Tom Mix I knew through a radio script would have been proud that the posse was helping a town where Tony once roamed. It is by no means a good film, but entertaining nonetheless, starring James Garner as Wyatt and Bruce Willis as . The list of Californians in the Earp orbit is particularly impressive. Adela noted that Tom Mix wept. All his marriages must have helped set the stage for Hollywood marriages since then. He swerved to miss a road repair crew and ran off the road into a wash. 1937 Cord Phaeton He had stashed a large aluminum suitcase packed with lots of cash, traveler's checks, and jewels in a shelf behind the driver's seat. John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 - November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist. You could say Virgil Earp knew Corbett up close. We have many black and white photos of my granfather dressed up as Charlie Chaplin. Mix was listed as AWOL on November 4, 1902, but was never court-martialed. Porter Griggers, my childhood friend, was his nephew. Operating the restaurant at the Nadeau was Hyman Solomon. Wyatt Earp was considered the central figure in the shootout in Tombstone, he also took part in a Gunfight at the O.K. Fall for oil leasing rights, though Fall and Sinclair both served prison terms for their roles. Tom Mix was often portrayed in comic books, primarily during the heyday of Western-themed comics, the 1940s and 1950s. Photography, history, and stories from all my treks plus crafts, antiques, art, and much more My great-great uncle was a stunt man for Tom Mix. A group of lawmen led by Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, and his brothers Wyatt and Morgan, faced off against a group of outlaws called The Cowboysincluding Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury. Hints suggest encounters at the Agricultural Park horse racing grounds. He was briefly night marshal[3] of Dewey, in 1911. [7] His performances were realistic with action stunts, horseback riding, attention-grabbing cowboy costumes, and showmanship. (Library of Congress) Tom Mix, among few genuine Western cowboys to have starred in films, was a known companion of the Earps and attended horse races with Wyatt and Josie. Thereafter, the names of Doc Holliday and the Earps . The four Mrs. Wyatt Earps each had a unique view of some of the key events of the Old West as the wives of a legendary lawman-turned-outlaw. The Earps doubtless encountered other prominent Tombstoners in Los Angeles. The Supreme Court eventually ruled in Neagles favor in a case with profound implications for the supremacy of federal law over state law. In 1929, Tom was a pallbearer at the funeral of his good friend Wyatt Earp. This column is by Dan Krieger. In 1893 the lawman had a leading role in ending the depredations of the Sontag-Evans gang in California. It was first known as the Milky Way Ranch in the 1940s with its big white show barn which housed many Hereford cattle. We have been to this trailer park for 12 years now. Never heard this story though! It is astonishing how many individuals destined for fame Wyatt and Josie met in Alaska amid the Klondike Gold Rush. Days after the bout Wyatt and brother James encountered Grannan at a local racetrack. In 1889, while serving as a bodyguard for a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, Neagle killed a former California chief justice amid an assault by the latter. He grew up in nearby DuBois, where his father, a stable master for a wealthy lumber merchant, taught him to ride and love horses. These featured action-oriented scripts contrasted with the documentary style of his work with Selig. The actual answer is maybe. Who was Wyatt Earps best friend? The Bar Circle A Ranch has been developed into a planned community called Yavapai Hills, where there is a street named Bar Circle A Road. Was John Wayne a pallbearer at Wyatt Earps funeral? Earp described the gunfight at O.K. Eventually, John Wayne became one of the most popular film actors of the 20th century, and with the help of the famed lawman, Wyatt Earp, he createdthe model for the iconic hero of the American West. Still considered one of the definitive books on Earp, Lake's tome unfortunately suffered somewhat in accuracy due to the demands Josephine Earp placed upon him. He was the last surviving to participate in a Gunfight at the O.K. I enjoyed reading about him. I love stopping at all those road side markers to learn what they are about. In July 1890 one of the races was dubbed the Nadeau Handicap, while entered in other races were mounts belonging to both Wyatt Earp and Lou Rickabaugh, a former partner of Wyatts in the gaming concessions at Tombstones Oriental Saloon. You could say C.S. In 1905, Mix married Kitty Jewel Perinne, and this marriage also ended within a year. They married in 1918 and had a daughter, Thomasina (Tommie) Mix, in February 1922.[3]. Read another story from us:The Hole-in-the-Wall hideout was the favorite hiding place for the Old West outlaw gangs. Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix;[1] January 6, 1880 October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. Famed L.A. County Sheriffs Capt. He was a pallbearer at Wyatts funeral (see photo at top of post), and until Hunsakers own death in 1933 Josie took her personal and financial issues to himprobably too often, as it is doubtful he would have allowed her to pay for his services. When the gunfight broke out, Ike Clanton hid in Flys studio, and the photographer personally disarmed Ikes mortally wounded brother Billy. Southern Californians also figured into the Earp mix. A large aluminum suitcase containing money, traveler's checks, and jewels, situated on the package shelf behind his head, hurtled forward and fatally struck him, breaking his neck. In California, Wyatt Earp also befriended a young actor named Marion Morrison who would later change his name to John Wayne and would become an American acting icon. I sent in Hot Wheat box tops and a dime to receive a Tom Mix periscope to help detect Nazi saboteurs. Answer (1 of 5): Yes and it was awesome or at least the legend is. i have never heard of him, thank you for the story Eric, very cool about your great-great uncle. Corral gunfight Spicer Hearing and served in the Arizona Territorial Legislaturelater bounced between Tombstone and Los Angeles, where he was the attorney of choice for the mining empires of Eliphalet Butler Gage and Colonel William C. Greene. But he did become legendary. a friend from the Alaska days and early Hollywood western stars Tom Mix and William S. Hart as pallbearers. They ate lunch at Hollywoods legendary Musso & Frank Grill and Al Levys Tavern, known for hosting some of Americas greatest writers in their backrooms where liquor flowed freely throughout Prohibition. Mix was seen openly crying at Earp's funeral. Anything Wayne knew about the real Earp came to him secondhand from Ford during their 25-year working relationship. Tom Sizemore portrayed Masterson in the 1994 movie Wyatt Earp. She was the last Mrs. Wyatt Earp and the woman who held that title for much longer than her predecessors. When Wyatt Earp died in January, 1929, two of the Pall Bearers at his Funeral were Western Stars Tom Mix, and William S. Hart. On June 22, 1880, while living at Bilickes Cosmopolitan Hotel in Tombstone, Leslie shot down Mike Killeen. Nearly 50 years after the famous gunfight at the O.K. On May 7, 1915, Bilicke was a passenger aboard RMS Lusitania when a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British ocean linerone of the events that precipitated World War I. He would have seen the Earps almost daily in Sawtelle, as James was running illicit booze, and father Nicholas and eldest son Newton also lived in the Old Soldiers Home. Many of the most famous characters in the Western movies were either loosely or wholly based on real people. Some of his movies were filmed in his Prescott home. Directors such as Sergio Leone, Howard Hawks, and John Ford helped in the popularization of the genre and influenced many other filmmakers and movie industries throughout the world. The United States Postal Service has commemorated Mix on a first-class mail postage stamp. On July 13, 1912, Olive gave birth to their daughter Ruth. In the wake of the fight Judge Swinnerton was part of the cabal seeking to overturn Earps upset decision for Tom Sharkey over Bob Fitzsimmons. Historians have yet to establish any further interaction between him and mining executive Gage, miner/cattleman John Van Vickers or financier John Vosburg, for example. A notorious lush, the politico almost certainly patronized Nomes Dexter Saloon and Tonopahs Northern Saloon, both Earp operations. He was arrested there at least three times and served briefly on the Wichita police force. Circo Fuentes. Shot in Dewey, Oklahoma with Selig studio cameramen,[5] the film was a success, and Mix became an early motion picture star. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. But Was He Drugged Into Confessing? Corral, Wyatt Earp dies quietly in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Corral to pick up their horses and ride out of town. Corralscene of the 1881 shootout. Bill Pickett invented the rodeo art of bulldogging, and Herb Jeffries, the first black singing cowboy, was also a lead singer for Duke Ellingtons orchestra. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, on Oct. 26, 1881. "The real story of the Old West can never be told unless Wyatt Earp tells what he knows, and Wyatt will not talk," said perhaps the oldest of those friends, William Barclay "Bat" Masterson. In 1932, he married his fifth wife, Mabel Hubbell Ward. When refereeing the controversial 1896 Fitzsimmons-Sharkey bout, Wyatt Earp became all too familiar with Judge James G. Swinnerton and son Jimmy, a budding cartoonist at William Randolph Hearsts Examiner. #BlakeEdwards #Actors #Cowboys #Movies #Film #Illustrated #Art #80s Senator Hearst and son William Randolph Hearst were running the Examiner, Wyatt renewed their acquaintance. His horse, "Tony the Wonder Horse", also became a celebrity. WW. On an October afternoon in 1940, Tom Mix was driving his 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton near Florence doing 80 mph. Paralyzed by the sight of a big Navy revolver in the hands of Earp, one newspaper reported, Corbett very wisely did not strike. The story made headlines coast to coast. Truth be told, Wayne wasn't a pallbearer at Earp's funeral (though two silent stars, Tom Mix and William S. Hart, were). Fawcett Comics published 61 issues of Tom Mix Western from 1948 to 1953. However, Earp achieved iconic status mostly due to his role in one of the most famous gunfights in American history the gunfight at O.K. I used to babysit for Buster Crabbe's grandkid when I was teen. He is probably the best-known lawman with an outlaw history. Coincidentally, he was also related to Williamson Dunn Vawter, an influential pioneer of both Pasadena and Santa Monica. It appears they made and lost many fortunes. Wyatt first met George Hearst early in 1882 when Hearst was considering mining properties in and around Tombstone. On October 12, 1940, Mix died from injuries suffered in a one-car accident near the city of Florence, Arizona, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, CA. Adela noted that Tom Mix wept. Around the same time William Jesse Curtis, the patriarch of his family, served as district attorney of San Bernardino County. Playwright, raconteur and serial entrepreneur Wilson Mizner (another pallbearer at Wyatts funeral; see top of post) spent many a tipsy evening with the Earps while snowed in for weeks in the boomtown of Rampart. Mix appeared with the Sells-Floto Circus in 1929, 1930, and 1931 at a reported weekly salary of $20,000 (equivalent to $316,000 in 2021). In 1985 Blake Edward's released his movie Sunset which told the fictionalized story of Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp in a Hollywood caper together after meeting on the set of a silent movie. He was killed, while his wife survived. Fly knew the Earps up close, as his studio abutted the vacant lot behind the O.K. Other Earp associates from the Tombstone days became nationally prominent figures. In one such bout his sparring partner was being pulverized when Corbett intervened. "Sunset" (1988) #MoviePoster Tom Mix (#BruceWillis) and Wyatt Earp (#JamesGarner) team up to solve a murder at the #AcademyAwards in 1929 #Hollywood. He had used the stables at Alondra and Santa Fe avenues to launch Tom Mixs circus in 1936, prior to traveling to San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles and then on to a Pacific Coast tour. Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holliday went to the corral to confront the gang. The following month the track featured the running of the Hollenbeck Stakes, and the onetime saloon partners had horses in races. Mix returned to circus performing, now with his eldest daughter Ruth, who appeared in some of his films. He rode several mounts for Wyatt at San Franciscos Bay District Track in 1895 and went on to become one of the most successful jockeys in the United States and Britain. Corral. We ended up finding some items to take home and took lots of pictures. Heroes and villains were sharply defined and a clean-cut cowboy always saved the day. Tom Mix was a friend of Wyatt Earp in the 1920s. Mix's salary at Fox reached $7,500 a week. But they befriended plenty of others outside that circle, from writer Jack London to film star William S. Hart, boxing promoter Tex Rickard, businessman Lucky Baldwin, mining investor George Hearst and oil man Ed Doheny. It was reported that Tom Mix openly wept. Mix had been one of L.A. County Sheriff Eugene Biscaluzs honorary Sheriffs, so he could legally own the weapon. The American artist Robert Ecker has incorporated Mix's trademark ten-gallon hat and his image in several works, including, In the season five episode entitled "Mulcahy's War" of the television series, An image of Mix appears prominently on the cover of the Beatles' 1967 album, This page was last edited on 10 February 2023, at 11:41. Shortly afterwards, he was covered by the blowing sands, which appeared to have dried his body overnight. There is also a Tom Mix museum in Dewey, Oklahoma. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. In fact, the two of them were so close, that Mix served as a pallbearer at Earps funeral. Im sort of personally hoping my monument is at a waterfall since I've lived in a freaking desert most of my life. OLD WEST MAGAZINE 1932 - Tom Mix, western actor and friend of Wyatt Earp going on tour. Corral, where he killed three outlaw cowboys. There is a street named Tom Mix Trail in Prescott, Arizona and many streets in the Yavapai Hills neighborhood are named after Tom Mix's movies. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. It was said that after Wayne met Earp in 1928, the two became friends in fact, after Earp died in January 1929, the actor was said to be one of his pallbearers. He was long gone from TV when I was born. The action lasted all of 30 seconds, but the story has been told and retold going on a century and a half. As True West tells us, Bat was out on the plains with his brother, Ed . After 1900 Brighton served as a policeman and constable in the Sawtelle district of Los Angeles and its Old Soldiers Home, where he resided. Nadeau himself had died in 1887, leaving middle son George in charge of his business concerns, including a namesake racetrack, primarily a practice area for trotters. I was on the website to see about him crying. Former Tombstone Epitaph editor Clum moved to San Bernardino in 1886, where he dabbled in real estate and intermingled with the Earps. Peabody became a nationally known figure in education and officiated at the wedding of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (a former pupil of the reverends at Massachusetts prestigious Groton School for Boys, as were cousin Theodore Roosevelts four sons). In the wake of the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight Grannan was among those who lambasted Wyatts decision in the press. Wyatt Earp was one of the many children born to Nicholas Porter Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. Favorite scene has Earp being told, "Assault. Wow, what a crummy way to go. Tom Mix By the late 1880s, he. In the 1920s Wyatt was a minor player in the Kern County, Calif., oilfields, which may have brought him into contact with the oil baron. His father, Nicholas Porter Earp, was a commanding figure, a sometimes frontier judge, whose other occupations included farmer, storekeeper, barrel maker, and still operator. Corral did attract the admiring attention of the citys thriving new film industry. Reply Julie Ferguson January 29, 2012 at 1:37 PM Welsa, thanks for adding that bit of information. In California, Wyatt Earp also befriended a young actor named Marion Morrison who would laterchange his name to John Wayne and would become an American acting icon. Frontier legend Wyatt Earp died at age 80 in Los Angeles on Jan. 13, 1929. In 1929, Mix was a pallbearer at the funeral of Wyatt Earp. I'm not sure if he married Victoria but the did have a hot love affair with her.Les, I enjoyed reading about him too. Also his hat is enormous. Doheny grabbed headlines in 1922 when implicated (with Harry Ford Sinclair of Sinclair Oil) in the Teapot Dome Scandal. Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. Doheny and second wife Carrie garnered more headlines for their philanthropy in Los Angeles. In April 1898, during the SpanishAmerican War, Mix enlisted in the Army under the name Thomas E. (Edwin) Mix. He arrived in Tombstone in the immediate wake of the O.K. Referee Virgil Earp told Ungentlemanly Jim to desist. He and Wyatt met in Nome, where Pittman prospected and served as the first city attorney. From his Washington office in 1928 Senator Oddie recalled that in those days Wyatt Earp and 15 others of similar spirit were mustered to protect our claims from squatters.. Corral and he died at his home because of chronic cystitis on January 13, 1929. My cousins travel and perform very often in Las Vegas at Circus Circus. 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His father, Nicholas, named him after his Mexican-American War Captain. Solomon, a merchant and member of the Tombstone Common Council and Cochise County Board of Supervisors, had presented a Winchester to the rifleless Holliday as the Earp party left town on their vendetta ride. He wouldnt have lasted long in Kansas. Wyatt Earp knew what went down in Kansas. In 1928 Clum moved to Los Angeles, where he made sporadic visits to Wyatt. One of the icons of the American West, Wyatt Earp worked for the law and helped tame the wild cowboy culture that pervaded the frontier. [2] He spent time working on a local farm owned by John DuBois, a lumber businessman. Earp died in 1929 and Mix was one of the pall bearers. Lawmen Wyatt and Virgil Earp arrived in Tombstone in 1879 and were eventually joined by their younger brother Morgan and Wyatt's friend Doc Holliday. She was about two years younger than Wyatt. Thomas Hezikiah Mix was born January 6, 1880, in Mix Run, Pennsylvania, approximately 62 miles (100km) north of State College, to Edwin Elias Mix and Elizabeth Heistand. Griggers was a crack pistol shot and could shoot the band off a cigar, leaving the cigar intact. Tom Mix openly cried at the funeral because, he said, Wyatt Earp's death was the end of an era. Mystery surrounds the infamous burning of the Reichstag in 1933. They donated the land for Doheny State Beach, in Dana Point, Calif., the surfing strand celebrated in the Beach Boys 1960s hits Surfin Safari and Surfin U.S.A. When finances were strained, a widowed Josie Earp reportedly contacted Doheny to the point of pestering. Outdoor action sequences for the production were filmed primarily on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Three were intact, while one was about to collapse. The ceremony was performed by Wyatt's father, Nicholas. He never appeared on the show. He would purchase the animals at Griffith Park. While most people are aware of Wyatt's legendary time in Tombstone, Arizona with his brothers and notorious friend, John "Doc" Holliday, most don't much about him after he left the region. In 1910, he appeared as himself in a short documentary film, Ranch Life in the Great Southwest, in which he displayed his skills as a cattle wrangler. . McGraw had recently served as the second governor of Washington state and was a former sheriff of King County, while Brig. You and Sharon really are a couple of adventurous gals! He is past President of the California Mission Studies Association, now part of the California Missions Foundation. And on that day, Earp was not the fastest gunslinger in town. ", Tom Mix was the acknowledged "King of Cowboys" when Ronald Reagan and John Wayne were young, and the influence of his screen persona can be seen in their approach to portraying cowboys. I remember my Mom talking about him and seeing him in old silent movies myself. The more believable story was that he was found shortly after death and preserved in a high level of arsenic. A 21-year-old bit-part actor at Fox Film Corporation met 79-year-old Earp in 1928. Perhaps it was here that he began his career as a "play actor." He acted in nine films for Universal, but because of injuries he received while filming, he was reluctant to do any more. In the tense wake of the O.K. What a small world. "Go ahead, skin it! Nevertheless, the age of radio kept him alive. After leaving Tombstone in 1882, Earp moved around the West, laying low and supporting himself through gambling. I imitated his walk; I imitated his talk said the famous actor John Wayne. . In 1959, a "Monument to the Stars" was erected on Beverly Drive (where it intersects Olympic Boulevard and becomes Beverwil) in Beverly Hills. The Earp brothers - Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan - and their wives, including Mattie Earp, all group together at the train station, building the themes of family and loyalty that lie at the heart of the Tombstone story. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. in the movie TOMBSTONE WITH KURT RUSSELL..at the end Robert Mitchum narrates and said "among the pallbearers was TOM MIX..TOM MIX WEPT. Hart met and corresponded with them frequently from his ranch north of Los Angeles. [citation needed]. Their encounter is only a charming Hollywood fable. In later years he heaped praise on the Earp brothers for their roles in law enforcement. Mix began his film career as a supporting cast member with the Selig Polyscope Company. Marshal Cornelius L. Vawter and wife Sarah. Tom Mix: First Cowboy Superstar (Jerry Skinner Documentary) Jerry Skinner 117K views 2 years ago. The services for the legendary lawman were held at the Pierce Brothers chapel in Los Angeles. He worked at the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch, one of the largest ranching businesses in the United States, covering 101,000 acres (41,000ha), hence its name. This relationship is not . Wealthy real estate and mining investor Elias Jackson Lucky Baldwin was a headline-grabbing personality known for his namesake San Francisco hotel, his thoroughbred racehorses, his arrogance and his womanizing (he was twice shot by women, once in a courtroom drama). A peer of Tom's and used to play Tarzan and Buck Rogers. Richard Dick Girdwho made a fortune setting up the Tombstone mining district and went on to found Chino, Calif., in 1910reconnected with Wyatt in the early 1890s through the Los Angeles horse racing circuit. Start in Tombstone from the Tombstone days became nationally prominent figures January 29, 2012 at 1:37 welsa... 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