The Life of Wyatt Earp Did you know that one of the most well-known outlaws was actually part hero for some time? Wyatt Earp was that person, he was an outlaw, but was also known as a law enforcement officer. He had many ups and downs and successes and downfalls. Wyatt Earp had no nickname as a person, he was commonly referred to as Wyatt. His full name was Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp. Wyatt was born March 19, 1848, in Monmouth, Illinois.(History.com) He grew up in his birth town, Monmouth, Illinois. (Biography.com) Earps’s parents were Nicholas and Virginia Earp (History.com). He was married 3 different times, their names were Urilla Sutherland, which died of typhoid fever, Josephine Earp, and Mattie Blaylock. (Although, he never had any children (Biography.com). He had 3 other siblings, which were named James, Virgil, and Martha Earp. He had many friends. He was close friends with his brother Virgil, Doc Holiday, and many other people in his “Clan.” (Pbs.org.) Earp did attend middle school for a little while, before he dropped out (Googled). He then decided…
“I’m your huckleberry”. Said by the best friend of “peacekeeping” Wyatt Earp. A former marshall from Dodge City, decided to set out and go on a journey to invest and make money in a small town of Tombstone. Taken over by the first group of organized crime group called the Cowboys. In this town several laws are broken and several lives are lost due to these law abiding Cowboys. Although these movies take place in the same location, the stories they tell are very different. Some of the differences…
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born in 1848 in Monmouth, Illinois. He was one of 5 sons to Nicholas and Virginia Earp. As a teenager, he always tried to run away to join his 2 brothers, James and Virgil, who were fighting for the union during the civil war. When he was 17, he left and found him a job for the Union Pacific Railroad. In early 1870, Earp married his first wife names Urilla Sutherland, but she ended up dieing due to typhoid within a year of getting married (history.com). Devastated…
place that Wyatt and Clementine were positioned showing both the buttes and the fence, which delivers a very important message by ford. The mixture of the buttes, which signifies wilderness and the man made fence, which signifies civilization. Explains the idea of conjoining two modes of life. In other words that wilderness can be tames by civilization. It's also noted that clementine is standing very close to the fence and earp is away from it. Explains that she represents civilization so…
addressing to the scenes of the opening and O.K Corral. The characters in Ford’s films embody the antithetic types of people as the representation of the morality of a society instead of individuality (Baxter, 1939), My Darling Clementine is no exception. Hero in Ford’s film most likely be an outsider to the town and consists an image of tough problem solver with morality, just like Marshal Wyatt Earp in My Darling…
I got in my car and sped off down the road overly emotional and crying. My mom always told you should never drive while upset, that was not stopping me. I turned down Avenue P, put my foot on the gas until it touched the floor, I could not find my cares about how fast I was going. When I hit Wyatt Earp I realized in my fit throwing, I stormed off without grabbing any money. I made a "U" turn in the middle of the road and went back to my house to retrieve the money. On return I found my now…
There are only a few classic American directors that have the distinction to be called one of the greatest of all time, and John Ford is in that esteem category. His talent of perfectly illustrating on film the American Frontier (1800s to early 1900s) is not just entertaining, exciting, and romanticized, but his films are laced with folklore, cultural relevance, and history that make him a one-of-a-kind director in the western genre. Back in the Golden Age of Hollywood, Ford established himself…
Then we went to another store and we all got little scorpion lollipops. They had a scorpion in the middle and we thought it was the coolest thing. We were hesitant to eat them at first. There were some that had crickets, millipedes, mill worms, and all kinds of different insects, and we wanted to get all of them. But we wanted to go see more sights so we went to an old graveyard. The graveyard was really cool. We walked around it for an hour and a half, reading all the tombstones. There were…
Holliday was born a normal child, he did decent in school, his parents loved him, and he was happy, until one day his dad went off to war as a paratrooper, his father never came back as his parachute plane pilot was a bit of a drunk and ended up killing his father during a para drop training exercise after he decided to bank the plane a little to far to the right causing his father to get sucked into the engines while jumping, after this Holliday was determined to become a pilot to prevent this…
DiMitri Smith November 1, 2015 ARTH 110 Stagecoach John Ford’s film “Stagecoach” is about a group of people with different backgrounds, cross paths in a stagecoach on its way to Lordsburg, New Mexico. The group consists of an alcoholic doctor, a run out of town mistress, whiskey salesman, a bank manager turned thief, and sickly wife of a soldier accompanied by a shady man who seems to be charmed by her. Along the way they encounter the infamous escaped convict, Ringo Kid. On the latter half of…