Harrison Ford to wear yet another Wyatt Earp Black Hat….In Tombstone and today’s Variety, not Monsey…..

It’s Cochise County all the time lately! I hope I can do my part and finish this darned book. Check out today’s VARIETY: Harrison Ford is attached to portray Wyatt Earp in a feature adaptation of “Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone.” Project’s produced by Thunder Road topper Basil Iwanyk and […]

Tombstone karma

So many terrible things to mourn about the Tucson tragedy….and since it happened in the shadow of Tombstone, we are in for a serious round of OK Corral references. Here’s one from Timothy Egan titled “Tombstone Politics” from today’s NYT: And Gail Collins quotes Giffords herself after her office was vandalized: Giffords brushed off the […]

Summer camp with Earps, 1883 in Hunter’s Hot Springs…or is it?

Look familiar?  I found this at the BBC, but I don’t know the source. I liked Kevin Connolly’s take on the photo, though he does not identify its provenance.  I’ll be looking on the Earpian listservs to see who first verifies or debunks the cast of characters. Virgil Earp, for instance?  Unlikely.  Of course, not […]