Inventing Wyatt Earp
Author: Allen Barra
Publisher: Castle Books
Published: 2009-01-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780785814948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis revelatory volume tells for the first time Earp’s entire astonishing story.
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Inventing Wyatt Earp
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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0803220588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those thirty violent seconds turned the thirty-three-year-old Wyatt Earp into the stuff of legend. In truth, however, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral neither launched nor climaxed a career that in the course of eighty-two colorful years took Wyatt Earp from an Iowa farm to the movie studios of Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on Western films. Along the way he saw real-life action as a buffalo hunter, bodyguard, detective, bounty hunter, gambler, boxing referee, prospector, saloon keeper, and, on occasion, a superb lawman. ø This authoritative biography tells Wyatt Earp?s story in all its amazing variety?a story the celebrated lawman shares with the likes of Bat Masterson, Earp?s colleague on the Dodge City police force; the tubercular, gun-toting southern gentleman Doc Holliday; and Josephine Sarah Marcus, a beautiful Jewish girl from New York City who lived and traveled with Earp throughout the last forty-seven years of his life. Biographer Allen Barra also examines the more fantastic versions of Earp?s exploits told during his own lifetime, as well as his incarnations in the myths that have flourished in our national imagination throughout the seventy years since his death.
Inventing Wyatt Earp
Author: Allen Barra
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780786705627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the entire story of Earp's amazing life, explaining why he became a legend among his contemporaries and how Hollywood reinvented him first as a hero and then as a scoundrel. 30,000 first printing.
Wyatt Earp
Author: Casey Tefertiller
Publisher:
Published: 1997-09-22
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of Wyatt Earp, drawing from newspaper stories as well as personal accounts from Earp's friends, enemies, and acquaintances.
Murder in Tombstone
Author: Steven Lubet
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 030010426X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe gunfight at the OK Corral occupies a unique place in American history. Although the event itself lasted less than a minute, it became the basis for countless stories about the Wild West. At the time of the gunfight, however, Wyatt Earp was not universally acclaimed as a hero. Among the people who knew him best in Tombstone, Arizona, many considered him a renegade and murderer. This book tells the nearly unknown story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday following the famous gunfight. To the prosecutors, the Earps and Holiday were wanton killers. According to the defense, the Earps were steadfast heroes—willing to risk their lives on the mean streets of Tombstone for the sake of order. The case against the Earps, with its dueling narratives of brutality and justification, played out themes of betrayal, revenge, and even adultery. Attorney Thomas Fitch, one of the era’s finest advocates, ultimately managed—against considerable odds—to save Earp from the gallows. But the case could easily have ended in a conviction, and Wyatt Earp would have been hanged or imprisoned, not celebrated as an American icon.
The Last Gunfight
Author: Jeff Guinn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1439154252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revisionist history of the Old West battle challenges popular depictions of such figures as the Earps and Doc Holliday, tracing the influence of a love triangle, renegade Apaches, and the citizens of Tombstone.
Mickey and Willie
Author: Allen Barra
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 030771649X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their families and later by America. Both lived secret lives far different from those their fans knew. What their fans also didn't know was that the two men shared a close personal friendship--and that each was the only man who could truly understand the other's experience.
The Long Road to Legend
Author: Mark Warren
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-08-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 149305340X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery story has its beginning. Every great man starts as a boy. Every boy must stumble. In the years following the Civil War an unsophisticated Iowa farm boy feels the inner fire of ambition but struggles to find a direction that matches his rough-hewn temperament. Because of his physicality, confidence, and a willingness to exercise deliberate courage, he will eventually find his place at the margin of respectability and be admired by his peers. But first he has some tough dues to pay. His name is Wyatt Earp. In his young adult years Earp was many things—farmer, wagon train hunter, freight hauler, stage driver, railroad wrangler, husband, constable, wood splitter, accused horse thief, brothel bouncer, buffalo hunter, gambler, and lawman—most of this in the "new" and raw land of America's untapped West. The possibilities seemed endless for Wyatt, but history remembers him as a peace officer, a role he never wanted but that fate forced upon him. He was that good at it. His name will always be spoken anytime that a conversation arises about justice vs. law and order . . . and how those American commodities do not always balance on the scales of a courtroom bench.
Wyatt Earp
Author: Adam Woog
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1604135972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the life and legend of Wyatt Earp, from his early life and career as a lawman to his famous gunfights and his legacy that lives on in popular culture.
The Buntline Special
Author: Mike Resnick
Publisher: Pyr
Published: 2010-12-10
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1616142995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to a West like you've never seen before, where electric lights shine down on the streets of Tombstone, while horseless stagecoaches carry passengers to and fro, and where death is no obstacle to The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo. Think you know the story of the O.K. Corral? Think again, as five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick takes on his first steampunk western tale, and the West will never be the same.
