wyatt earp is first presented by bat masterson and then the movies.'t forget, for a while tombstone was almost more popular in the movies and wyatt earp. threatening lawsuits, her idea is selling this image, this scene where he tried to duck behind something when someone was shooting at them. it to josephine he would never have ducked. it grew. it grew because it was what so many people wanted to believe. the sad thing is, the truth, the way he really was, that not as a saint or a career criminal, not the best of the western lawman, not every bit as bad as the cochise county cowboys. when we realize someone is an actual human being and not a cardboard cutout, when that person becomes real then the history becomes real. and don't all of this year, each in our own way think it is importance to use the facts rather than the fiction? because the facts, when presented with enthusiasm, with context, almost inevitably are better than the myth. >> well, you can't get away with some calling that something changed the american west, and particularly with this i