highthief

I was watching the rather abysmal Kevin Costner version of Wyatt Earp today and got to thinking: "Who is the last of the legends?"

Obviously, there have been prominent people in every era, people who have been larger than life, but a legend is something else - a historical figure of epic character about whom we know somethings, but not everything, whose exploits are today seen as a mix of fact and fiction.

Is someone like Wyatt Earp (or another from the cowboy era - Jesse James, Wild Bill, etc) perhaps the last of the legends? Is there anyone from the 20th century who would qualify?

I gave some thought to Amelia Earhart or Mallory of Everest - their ends were shrouded in mystery, if nothing else, and they certainly were larger than life individuals.

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