Movies misrepresented the Old West. Gunfights were not daily events. Earp wore a badge fewer than nine years. He was a gambler, saloon operator, miner, horse racer...a "sporting man". For years he battled his reputation from two events. He outlived all the Old West icons dying in 1929 after becoming friends with Hollywood’s Tom Mix, William S. Hart, and John Ford.. One cannot know the Earp story without learning of wife Josephine. Peterson interviewed three people who knew Earp.