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red dog 1

(30,450 posts) Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:44 PM Mar 12

Looking for A Legend

Jewish Journal
By Larry Tritten

Years ago I'd heard from someone or read somewhere that Wyatt Earp was buried in Colma, near San Francisco, a bit of provocative trivia whose truth I'd never been sure of.

One day a while back I decided to check it out.
I would have thought that one of the most famous figures in the history of the Old West would have ended up in the landscape of his legend.
In the case of Wyatt Earp, this would mean Dodge City, Wichita, or more appropriately, Tombstone.

As a boy I watched Wyatt Earp gun down, pistol-whip and give bare fisted beatings to legions of outlaws and romance plenty of clear-eyed frontier beauties in countless movies and TV shows.
Saying the name now, even with the hindsight of adult skepticism, stirs up a chill of the old childhood wonder, which is why after all these years I found myself on my way to Colma looking for the final word in the legend of Wyatt Earp.

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https://jewishjournal.com/culture/travel/3980/

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Looking for A Legend (Original Post) red dog 1 Mar 12 OP

Thanks, that was a fun read. nt Hotler Mar 12 #1

I'm excited to hear if you find him. My Mom and I visited him in Deadwood when I was10. dai13sy Mar 12 #2

Did you read the article? (I didn't write it) red dog 1 Thursday #3

Hotler

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1. Thanks, that was a fun read. nt

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Wed Mar 12, 2025, 10:27 PM

Mar 12

dai13sy

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2. I'm excited to hear if you find him. My Mom and I visited him in Deadwood when I was10.

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Wed Mar 12, 2025, 11:21 PM

Mar 12

Mom and I talked after wondering if he was still buried there but hunger overtook us and we wanted to sleep in a bed instead of our car. We had so much fun. Good luck to you

red dog 1

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3. Did you read the article? (I didn't write it)

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Thu Mar 13, 2025, 10:39 PM

Thursday

It's a great little story and well worth reading.

After Wyatt Earp died in 1929, his wife Josephine Marcus Earp, "had Earp's body cremated and secretly buried his remains in the Marcus family plot at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park, a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California," (just south of San Francisco)
(Wikipedia).

(If you visited a gravesite in Deadwood, South Dakota, it wasn't that of Wyatt Earp)

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