Bob Boze Bell Seeks the Truth in Earp and Other Westerners

(historynet) ... "I've been obsessed with Wyatt Earp since I was 9 ," Bell says. "I was watching the TV show [The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp], with Hugh O'Brian, with my grandmother, and she said, 'Wyatt Earp was the biggest jerk that ever walked the West.' And it stunned me that what was on the TV was perhaps not true."
His grandmother came from a ranching family near Steins Pass in southwestern New Mexico, and around 1900 the Cowboy contingent of the Tombstone/O.K. Corral equation was still alive. "And they," Bell says, "did not speak very highly of the Earps. That led to a lifelong search to find out the truth about Wyatt Earp, and as an artist I wanted to get his look right." Continued