Interesting fact of Wyatt Earp.....
He was great friends with John Wayne....JW was Wyatt’s gopher for a period of time since the movie studios used Wyatt’s expertise for consulting on the set.....
Also Wayne modeled his walk and talk after Earp’s.
I think there’s some confusion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyatt_Earp
Director John Ford said that when he was a prop boy in the early days of silent pictures, Earp would visit pals on the sets he knew from his Tombstone days. “I used to give him a chair and a cup of coffee, and he told me about the fight at the O.K. Corral. So in My Darling Clementine, we did it exactly the way it had been.” When Ford was working on his last silent feature Hangman’s House in 1928, which included the first credited screen appearances by John Wayne, Earp used to visit the set. John Wayne later told Hugh O’Brian that he based his Western lawman walk, talk and persona to his acquaintance with Wyatt Earp, who was good friends with Mix. “I knew him ... I often thought of Wyatt Earp when I played a film character. There’s a guy that actually did what I’m trying to do.” [/snip]
Tom Mix was one of Earp’s pallbearers, and wept openly during the service. There’s an oddball movie called “Sunset” starring James Garner as Wyatt Earp and Bruce Willis as Tom Mix. Mix later died in a car crash — he was a big fan of the Duesenberg brand, and his death car was repaired and later restored, and is still in use of a private owner. Those things were built.