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 == ""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 

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