[epow]

While Virgil Earp was, indeed, a veteran of the Union army, Neither Wyatt, nor his younger brother Morgan were (both were too young at the time)

You're right of course, Virgil was the only actual Union veteran of the Earp brothers. But I think Virgil's Union veteran status had at least something to do with the enmity between the Earp clan and the Clanton/McLaurey bunch. OTOH I don't think that either group's hostility toward the other was primarily motivated by loyalty to one side or the other of that fratricidal war.

I tend to believe that both cliques were motivated more by monetary greed and a desire for raw political power than by any other factor. Neither faction was worthy of the adulation heaped on the Earp's and Holliday by the eastern press and the dime novel authors.

[infowarrior]

Neither faction was worthy of the adulation heaped on the Earp's and Holliday by the eastern press and the dime novel authors.

Definitely agree.. Been fun discussing this with you!

the infowarrior