Shoot the Moon In the liner program notes of my local cable provider in the Wyatt Earp movie the character and therefore alluding to the actual historical person was said to be a Southern boy However the actual history is plainly seen that Wyatt and his family hail from the north Illinois later California with Wyatt rambling about in Missouri and Kansas His brief troubles in Arkansas would harldly qualify him as a son of the south to say the least The tag on the liner notes suggests that arguably the greatest cowboy who never was can be claimed by Southern Revauchists Nothing is obviously further from the truth Although most Hollywood films and vintage dime store novels have been out right lies about Earp and his exploits and personal dealings the Kevin Costner film ironically comes closer to the truth Added to the fact the the ENTIRE EARP CLAN were fierce Lincolnite Republicans fought for the Northern Union and despised the southern pro slavery Democratic Party of which the Earps nemeses the Clantons Mcclareys and the cowboy russler gangs belonged What s ironical in this is that the elongated bio pic of Earp gives a more accurate account of the wherefores and whyfors of Wyatt s personality and motivations unlike the current trend of deconstructionism in most modern biographies in film and print The curious public reaction of disfavor in the iconic western hero presented as yet another pragmatic and woefully flawed H U M A N is more likely limited to the cracker minded mentality of those who would rather live and die by fantasy over historical veracity Also the boiling up of old hatreds between Yankees and Rebels Of course it must be said that Hollywood had as yet an unexplained growing hatred towards Costner at about this time Wyatt can t be claimed by southern romantics not now and of course never The misleading liners on the cable program must be changed Veryverser Retrieved from