earps. virgil, morgan and wyatt. two opposing forces that define it to follow. >> these were guys who were living the cowboy life. they did not want to see the movement in of busineig busines mining corporation. the very kind of civilizing forces that the earps represent. >> it is a conflict between two cultures. >> looks like a u.s. army mule. how did you come by it? >> none of your business. got him here legally. don't care. just want the government property back. >> we have a problem here, boys. >> putting their noises in places they are not supposed to be. >> >> the accusations that you were stealing a mule, that was not only accusing somebody of being a criminal but being the lowest of low of the criminals. so that one incident winds up setting up the bad blood. >> during the fall of 1880, tensions between the earps and cowboys only escalates when doc joins wyatt in tombstone. storying of his killings and gun play have already been circulating. >> there was a fear factor when he came into town. people respected

wyatt earp. >> when wyatt passes through denver on his way to california, two old friends get to meet let's talk a while. this is my wife josephine. >> charmed, i'm sure. >> it shows that no matter who we are, or what we might become, there's always the possibility of us becoming someone else. and i think this is clearly demonstrated with doc holliday. >> doc holliday, a whiskey soaked gambler and drifter turned ruthless killer, and wyatt earp who played both sides of the law for money, would be defined as the wild west's most unlikely friendship, based as much on survival as affection. >> wyatt, it warms my heart to see you here in such fine company. >> you know, if not for you, i wouldn't be around today. >> and if not for you, old friend, neither would i. >> the biggest misconception people have about doc holliday is that he was simply wyatt earp's side kick. the truth is, doc's his own man who chooses to live by chance and violence over dying in a sick bed. doc holliday's anger fueled by a life cut short sends hit west. destined to die on his own terms. for 15 years, he lives in t

always looking for the next good opportunity to make a living in those frontier communities. >> why wyatt earpidered by many an iconic law man. unlike the way he is portrayed in movies the real wyatt isn't always on the right side of the law. in the early days as a thief to his time as a pimp he will do whatever it takes for a payday. >> holliday becomes one of the most respected dentists in town. >> it will be just another minute. >> i do beg your pardon. >> you okay, doc? >> i better >> he loses his good reputation just as soon as he gains it. his promising future shaken violently during coughs. six years before opening his practice in atlanta young john loses his mother to tuberculosis or what is commonly called consumption. >> they called it consumption because it consumed you. it was a long, slow disease and it would eat you away from the inside out. the classic way to die of consumption was really to suffocate. >> we know doc holliday had a close relationship with his mother, something he really needed. when she died when he was 15, that would have been devastating blow. >> holliday ace

i'm going to take all your money. >> well, you can try. >> wyatt earp is out manned and out gunned andholiday to save his life. this is the beginning of the west's most famous friendship. and the truth is without wyatt, doc has even less left to live for. >> i heard of the target on his back as a lawman and he looks for a way out west to look for a living. he joins his brothers in tombstone, arizona on the heels of the gold rush. >> i decided to move to tombstone which was just building up a reputation. >> but the earps are too late. tu tombstone has everything except a strong lawman. so, they work that for money. and now earp is a u.s. deputy marshals and promptly depue ties his brothers. >> because of the proximity to the mexican border, tombstone is the hub of cattle thievery. and in come the earps, and the two opposing forces. >> these were guys who were living the cowboy life who didn't want to see the movement of big business or mining corporations. the very civilizing forces that the earps represented. it's a conflict between two forces. >> that looks like a u.s. army mule. how

simply stated wyatt earp is a hustler.r the reward for dirty dave he and his legendary companion might never have met. >> entered here about a week ago. one of the worst card players i have ever seen. >> but you haven't seen him since? >> no sir. even if i had, i don't make a habit of discussing other man's affairs with the law. >> give my word i would bring in dave ruttabaugh. i intend to do is that one way or another. >> mr. earp you know why dirty dave was a bad card player? he was a predictable creature of habit. (indiscernible) >> i think earp would look for allies in people who really wouldn't care what he was up to morally and would ally with him to be what he needed when he needed it and doc holliday fit that bill. >> grateful for the tip wyatt heads out tracking his warrant. while he faces off with ed bailey a well-known hustler on the gambling circuit. >> the way the gambling circuit woshths you go from moon to moon. that's where the money is at. >> are you going to be able to finish this game? >> as a gambler he

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you get to watch rahm emmanuel burst out of the meeting kerry a sack full of blackberries like wyatt earp because as we were sitting in the meeting, people inside the meeting were black. now what was going on to the press. so we sat with george bush seven weeks before the election and decided yet, we are in terrible shape. we have no option now, so we pass something called t.a.r.p., which will go down in history as the most unpopular successful thing we ever did. democrats go forward in the house more than republicans. so we gave iraq obama or john mccain refuses to. and then obama becomes president. 2008 areas by partisanship. when obama becomes president, the advantage the republicans have is they don't care -- they used to not care so much if the government shut down. now that is a good thing. basically here is the deal. the story of king solomon and you have a faction that says see if i care. we have to be the ones that say you can't do that. >> well, you espouse -- obviously you're a liberal but one of the things you talk about in the book and it seems today back to your experience w

the outlived wyatt earp by six years, and played the same role in taming the west.this part of the west. there were 7,000 people in los angeles when moll holland came here in the 180s. by the time -- 1870s. by the time he became water commissioner and the city was about to buy out the private water company for which he worked worked up from ditch digger to superintendent, there were 100,000 people in 1900. by the time he finished the aqueduct in 1913 there were almost half a million. it was the bane of mulholland's existence who kept insisting it didn't matter what he did to try to place conservation limits on water consumption here in the l.a. basin if the people didn't stop coming. and the commissioner said, well-what are we supposed to do, bill? we're running oust water. and his suggestion, i think only half in jest, was maybe we should shoot the president of the chamber of commerce. and when the commissioners decided they wouldn't do that is when mulholland turned to fred eaton and said, show me that water source. he had been trying to get people interested in s