Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Between Blythe and Needles on US 95, you'll find a desert outpost called Vidal.

It's just north of the San Bernardino and Riverside County line.

And if you take Highway 62 out of Joshua Tree all the way to the Colorado River,

when you cross Highway 95, you're in Vidal Junction.

You'll find a gas station or two, one of those California agricultural inspection stations

where they ask if you're bringing any vegetables from Arizona or wherever,

if you're driving in from the east.

Now, if you head south on U.S., just a few miles, four miles, then right past the railroad tracks, you'll see a dirt street, old Parker road, and just a few lots to the east, you'll find a neat little white and blue house with a shady porch and an interesting

historical marker outside put up by eclampus vitus as per usual the marker explains that

this was the home of Wyatt Earp legendary lawman and gunslinger and gambler of the Old West.

Wyatt Earp and his third wife, Josephine Sarah, known as Sadie, lived here in their only

permanent home, the only home they owned, from 1925 to 1928.

The Earps had the house moved down from its original location up the highway in Calzona,

where it was the only surviving building after the rest of Calzona burnt to the ground.

Wyatt Earp died at age 80 at his rented house in Los Angeles early in 1929, the year the Great Depression

began. Because Sadie was Jewish and had a cemetery plot up in Colma, the city of the dead.

She buried his cremated remains there and joined him in 1944.

Wyatt Earp spent a lot of time in Los Angeles with the cowboy actors and the horseback stunt

riders.

Tom Mix and Douglas Fairbanks, he knew everybody.

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