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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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
