How can the script and the actor saying the lines be wrong about it and why have so many other writers and actors been getting the word that has been used since the 1800s wrong?
“The line in the movie, “I’m your huckleberry, that’s just my game” comes DIRECTLY from the 1929 Walter Noble Burns book Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest:“Doc, Ringo said, I don’t need but three feet to do my fighting. Here’s my handkerchief. Take hold.” Holliday took a quick step toward him. “I’m your huckleberry, Ringo,” replied the cheerful doctor. “That’s just my game.”
Here are links to examples of “I’m your huckleberry” being used during the 1800s:
https://tinyurl.com/mwzx8sdj 1869
https://tinyurl.com/2p98bj3d 1883
https://tinyurl.com/msv85k32 1894
https://tinyurl.com/yrbnzde5 1897
https://tinyurl.com/2p8h5tt8 1899
https://tinyurl.com/k8sa89z2 1883
https://tinyurl.com/4zf5fazt 1899
https://tinyurl.com/2p8hc9sj 1892
https://tinyurl.com/2p8dtjdn 1892