"I'm Your Huckleberry" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kate

Kate says this to Doc after his doctor recommends some changes to Doc's daily regimen due to health reasons. Of course, these changes would mean that Doc no longer needs Kate, and she is aware of that as well; it appears that she has no intention of letting Doc follow his doctor's advice. As the movie progresses, however, it becomes more and more evident that Doc's health is deteriorating. When the two do part ways when Doc leaves for the famous Vendetta Ride, the split seems to be acrimonious.

Historians believe that Kate Horony Cummings was actually Doc Holliday's common law wife, although she later claimed that they had married. He left for Colorado in April of 1882 after the Vendetta Ride, and there are no substantial records that suggest that the two ever saw each other again. After Holliday died in 1887, Kate remarried, but, although she lived a long time after that, she did not have an especially happy life. She died in 1940.

Answer: Johnny

By the time the exchange, known as the Latin duel in the movie, takes place, Wyatt has already procured a stake for himself and his brothers at the Oriental, a bar and gambling emporium in Tombstone. Doc is there, drunk and playing the piano when he spars a bit with Cowboy Johnny Ringo. The above statement, which means "Experience is a teacher of fools" in Latin, is part of an exchange between the two that is a foreshadowing of what is to come later in the movie. While Johnny pulls his gun during the conversation and shows off his skill in handling it, Doc defuses the situation by using his cup to imitate Johnny's movements.

It is known that Doc studied Latin at the Valdosta Institute, along with Greek and French, it is also possible that it was part of his education at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, from which he graduated at the age of twenty with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. Although it seems unlikely that Johnny Ringo was as fluent in Latin as he was in the movie, it has been written that by the time he was an adult he could quote Shakespeare and speak Latin. Historians believe that he probably learned some basic fundamentals as a young child.

And - speaking of the foreshadowing, while the movie implies that Doc shot Johnny Ringo, in reality his death was ruled a suicide.

Answer: Wyatt

Wyatt says this to Doc at the end of the movie. Doc is obviously on his deathbed in a sanatorium in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The two are discussing past disappointments and what they really want out of life; Doc tells the story of his love for his first cousin that didn't work out, "the only woman I ever loved", and is trying to convince Wyatt that there is no such things as a normal life - to grab whatever happiness he can with "that spirited actress".

It really appears, however, that what Wyatt Earp wanted had nothing to do with being "normal" by most definitions of the term. After leaving Tombstone, it appears that Wyatt and Josephine were struck with wanderlust for the rest of their lives. They traveled to California, Idaho, Alaska, and back to California, with Wyatt working in gambling, mining, and even real estate ventures. He passed away in 1929.

Answer: Mattie

It is established early in the movie, when the Earp brothers and their significant others meet in Tuscon on their way to Tombstone, that Mattie, Wyatt's common law wife, suffers from a "health problem" that she treats with laudanum. Mattie is upset that there is none for sale in the local town pharmacy, but her sister in law assures her that she has some to share. Wyatt is concerned that Mattie might really be ill, but her addiction to laudanum is apparent as well.

After Morgan's death, Mattie Blaylock traveled to California with the rest of the family, and apparently waited to hear from Wyatt about future plans; after not hearing from him for several months she contacted Wyatt, asking for a divorce so that she could remarry. He refused. Mattie ran away with the man anyway, but returned to the occupation she was pursuing at the time she met Wyatt - prostitution - after she was abandoned. She died in 1888. Her death was ruled suicide by opium, although historians note that she could have taken an accidental overdose.

Answer: Ike

Wyatt is working the faro table at the Oriental when approached by Curly Bill and Ike, who appear to just want to confirm who he is. Ike wants to make sure that Wyatt, who already has quite the reputation as a lawman, understands that lawmen really aren't welcome in Tombstone. Wyatt assures them that he has retired from that job.

Ike Clanton's family ran a cattle ranch near Tombstone, but members of the family and ranch hands were heavily involved with the Cowboys. Their horse stealing and cattle rustling led to several altercations with the Earp brothers. After the shootout at the O.K. Corral and the death of his brother, Billy, Ike filed murder charges against them which were dismissed. The Earps believed Ike had been involved in the ambushes on Virgil and Morgan, but he was not killed during the Vendetta Ride. Ike died in 1887, shot by a Pinkerton detective who was looking into the Clanton cattle rustling business.

Answer: Josephine

It was a case of love at first sight. Josephine exits the stagecoach upon her acting troupe's arrival in Tombstone, while Wyatt and his brothers, also newly arrived, are surveying the town. She and Wyatt take one look at each other - and the earth moves - so much so that even the men standing with him notice Wyatt's strong reaction.

It is very difficult to separate fact from fiction in the life of Josephine Marcus, as she had plenty of time to re-imagine her story after leaving Tombstone. Josephine was living in Tombstone with Johnny Behan when Wyatt arrived there. She had been in some sort of a relationship with Johnny Behan since 1874. In fact, she was named in Behan's first wife's divorce petition, who said her husband was frequently in the company of a prostitute who went by the name of Sadie Mansfield, an alias that had been used by Josephine.

Historians believe that in later life Josephine may have fabricated a story about joining a theater troupe to cover up some aspects of her life, as there is no evidence of her belonging to one. She also claimed that Wyatt married her, and used the name Earp. As Wyatt and Josephine traveled from place to place she gained quite a reputation for gambling and losing money. Contemporaries said that she didn't cook or do housework and was more than a bit of a shrew. She died in 1944.

Answer: Virgil

Virgil has just agreed to take the job as Tombstone's town marshal in this conversation with Wyatt. Wyatt is upset; he has made it clear to his brothers that he does not want anything to do with keeping the peace in Tombstone. Virgil, however, has other plans. He tells Wyatt that there is no future for the brothers in Tombstone unless there is some sort of law and order. In fact, he has already deputized their brother, Morgan.

After the shootout at the OK Corral, Virgil was assaulted, presumably by a group of Cowboys, and suffered a severe injury to his arm. After Morgan's death, he returned to California, where his father was living, with Morgan's body and the Earp women. Even though he lost the use of his arm, he continued to work in a variety of law enforcement jobs until his death in 1905.

Answer: Morgan

Throughout the movie, Morgan appears to be the brother who is most philosophical - perhaps that is used as a foreshadowing of his eventual death. He has been telling Wyatt about reading that people see a light that leads a person to heaven when they die. As he is dying, Morgan seems to need to let Wyatt know that that is not true in his case.

Morgan was playing pool with Wyatt when he was shot, presumably by the Cowboys, and died less than an hour later, surrounded by his family except for his wife, Louisa, who had already been sent to California to live with Morgan's father for safety reasons. Apparently Morgan and Wyatt really did have conversations about life and death, and, according to Wyatt, had made a pact to let each other know what was happening when one of them died.

Answer: Doc

Wyatt's posse has just had one heck of a shootout with the Cowboys, which has resulted death for many of their enemies. Although the fight takes place at an extremely close range, none of Wyatt's men are even touched by gunfire. Sherman McMasters, the Cowboy who changes sides after the plot, to scare the Earp wives, asked Doc Holliday about Wyatt's whereabouts when he received this reply.

Meeting Curly Bill Brocius and his men at Iron Springs was unplanned, but fortuitous. According to Wyatt's later account of the shootout there, bullets struck his boot heel, the horn on his saddle, as well as his long coat. Curly Bill apparently had several opportunities at a pretty close range to hit Wyatt, but missed every time. Wyatt then shot him with a 10 gauge shotgun.

It is interesting to note that Wyatt was never wounded in any of the altercations in which he was involved, and this, of course, contributed to the air of mystery that seemed to follow him.

Answer: Curly Bill

This is part of a conversation between Wyatt and Curly Bill after Morgan's death. Wyatt tells Curly Bill that his argument with the Cowboys is over, and that the family is leaving town. It's quite a surprise at the train station, then, that Virgil and the women are on the train, but Wyatt is not. He has been made a Deputy U.S. Marshall, which allows him to form a federal posse with the intention of dismembering the local organization of the Cowboys.

The famous Earp Vendetta Ride operated from March 20 to April 15, 1882. Sources agree that Wyatt had hoped that the people who had been involved in the attacks on his brothers would be brought to justice in a court of law. When that didn't happen, he took matters into his own hands.