The Mob Boss of The Cowboys Was Barney Fife?

 September 25, 2024

   To me the biggest historical faux pas in the new Netflix show Wyatt Earp And The Cowboy War was portraying Ike Clanton as a "mob boss." The point was hammered home numerous times to try and make Old Man Clanton's oldest son, into something he never was—the leader of the Cowboy Gang. It was patently obvious why the producers of the show did this, but to me it was like trying to pass off Don Knotts as Don Corleone.

"Do you want to wake up with a horse head

in your bed? Well, do you?"

   Well, do you?

Barney Fife Acts Tough

"You talk too much for a fighting man."

—Wyatt Earp to Ike Clanton mere hours before the street fight