WYATT EARP AUCTION Famed lawman's guns will go to highest bidder

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[Red in Blue PA]

It's high noon for one Arizona auction house that says it has two guns once owned by the legendary gunslinger Wyatt Earp.

The Arizona Republic reported that J. Levine Auction & Appraisal listed two guns, including a Colt .45-caliber revolver, that descendants of the famous lawman say he carried in Tombstone and possibly the shootout at O.K. Corral.

"This is American history here -- and not only is it that, it's Western folklore..This gun, the O.K. Corral shootout, it's lived on where other stories have not stood the test of time," Josh Levine, the owner of the auction house, told the paper.

He reportedly said that he expects 6,000 bidders and thinks the two guns will fetch about $275,000.

But like most things that involve the Old West, the facts are challenged and appear to some to be as mysterious as an old ghost town.

These guns were previously owned by Glenn Boyer, an author of a few books on Earp who admitted one of the books was mixed with fact and fiction, the report said.

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[Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness]

Wild Bill Hickock was shot from behind playing poker in Deadwood, S.D. Buffalo Bill Cody, different guy altogether.

But what about Wild Bill Hiccup, Buffalo Billiards, and Just Plain Bill?

[dainbramaged]

That’s a whole ‘nother kettle of fish, my FRiend.

[Utah Binger]

[B4Ranch]

In other words he died with his boots on and his gun in his hand.

[Red in Blue PA]

Reenactmemt:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0yFkfBgQM

[4yearlurker]

I saw a show on TCM a few years back about Wyatt Earp hanging out in a young movie town Hollywood trying to sell his life story for the movies. A young John Wayne (Then a stunt man) befriended Earp and they became friends. Wayne was so taken with Earp that he started to walk and talk like Earp. This is the western persona that Wayne used in his movies. Very interesting stuff. By the way,a young Hollywood was not interested in Earp's story.

[Chode]

$100.00, LOL... i be he would!

[Swordmaker]

Wyatt Earp was Not a Gunslinger—he was a Lawman and a good Republican. He did have a long barreled Colt pistol he used more to club people over the head than shoot—He called it the Buntline Special but no evidence that Ned Buntline ever heard of it (if he had he would have used it in one of his dime novels). Now Doc Holiday—The Dentist from Hell—was a gunsinger! Only curtailed his murderious habits out of his deep friendship with Wyatt. But at OK Corral he was deputized.

Earp never caller it such a thing, nor used a long barreled gun. Ned Buntline gave long barreled Colts to famous people. Earp got one but said he had the barrel shortened to 5 1/2" because the long barrel was silly. . . There were records at the Colt factory of Buntline ordering several long barrel SA revolvers. It is unknown who else Buntline gave the others to. . . or if he did.

[RandallFlagg]

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/411539875

These were available, but that was before Aurora, Sandy Hook, etc...

[Segovia]

My grandfather spent a few years in Texas and N. Mexico around the turn of the century, and came home with a S&W 44 that he had someone load cartridges for. He bought it from someone who told him it belonged to Earp. He took very good care of it his whole life, and actually shot a couple of deer with it. He let me fire it once, and I thought it broke my wrist. Kicked like a mule. It was a SW American, and I think it only held five shells, and broke down to load. When you “broke” it, it ejected the empty casings.

[2001convSVT]

Thanks, LOL, LOL. Perfect sarcasm!