Wyatt Earp

[Austin W Hogan]

The Kevin Costner "Wyatt Earp" was shown on TCM last night. I turned to it about a half hour before end, when he was riding out to ambush with the Parker in the scabbard. It had a skeleton steel buttplate.

Best, Austin

[Autumn Daze]

Austin,I watched it also. Noticed the butt plate but when he was stalking the bad guy's the hammers were down..Hmm...

[Dean Romig]

Did anybody get the serial number????

[Charlie Price]

Hey Austin: How deep is the snow up there? Merry Christmas. I wrote something about the Wyatt Earp movie Parker in TPS -- see fig. 16.19 and story on p. 648. I attempted to contact the movie people to see if I could learn more, to no avail. Charlie

[Bruce Day]

We are going to do a reenactment of the scene at the end of Jan in Dodge City, where Wyatt Earp was town marshall. Charlie Herzog has a hammer Parker and can advance on those rascally pheasants, presumably with hammers back.

[Don Kaas]

I looked to me like a D grade lifter with sawed off barrels. This would be correct for 1881. (there is a photo of Kevin Costner with it from the film in TPS) Wyatt hands it to John Holliday who is wearing a long coat that will conceal it as they walk to the Fly boarding house and their famous encounter in the alley next door. Doc uses it to kill one of the McLaury brothers with a load of buck in the chest. Which, according to the testimony, at the Sider hearing was exactly what happened... if Doc had shot an another of "The Cowboys" could he have qualified for a Parker Doubles Pin? Wyatt later kills Frank Stilwell in the train yard in Tucson with the Parker during the "Earp Vendetta"...

[GH-16]

I'll see if this works.

Here's a link to a site that lists all the guns used in the movies over the years. This one is for Wyatt Earp. You'll see by looking at the picture they have the guns wrong. The one picture of Costner clearly shows it being a Parker and yet they call it a Stevens.

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Wyatt_Earp