After the Gunfight at the OK Corral in late 1881, Wyatt Earp became famous in his own time. The real event was 30 seconds long. The motivations behind it have complicated details. But Wyatt wanted us to forget all that. He decided he could rewrite history through the magic of movies, hanging out in Hollywood in the 1920s to try to get a movie made about his life. And it actually worked.
