Inventing Wyatt Earp

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803220588
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Wyatt Earp written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 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.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780786706853
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Wyatt Earp written by Allen Barra and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1999-11-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells 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

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786705627
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Wyatt Earp written by Allen Barra and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells 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.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Castle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785814948
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Wyatt Earp written by Allen Barra and published by Castle Books. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory volume tells for the first time Earp’s entire astonishing story.

Author : Casey Tefertiller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyatt Earp written by Casey Tefertiller and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Wyatt Earp, drawing from newspaper stories as well as personal accounts from Earp's friends, enemies, and acquaintances.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429945478
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life written by Andrew C. Isenberg and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and al-Qaeda (after 2001). Yet as the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction—one created by none other than Earp himself. The lawman played on-screen by Henry Fonda and Burt Lancaster is stubbornly duty-bound; in actuality, Earp led a life of impulsive lawbreaking and shifting identities. When he wasn't wearing a badge, he was variously a thief, a brothel bouncer, a gambler, and a confidence man. As Isenberg writes, "He donned and shucked off roles readily, whipsawing between lawman and lawbreaker, and pursued his changing ambitions recklessly, with little thought to the cost to himself, and still less thought to the cost, even the deadly cost, to others." By 1900, Earp's misdeeds had caught up with him: his involvement as a referee in a fixed heavyweight prizefight brought him national notoriety as a scoundrel. Stung by the press, Earp set out to rebuild his reputation. He spent his last decades in Los Angeles, where he befriended Western silent film actors and directors. Having tried and failed over the course of his life to invent a better future for himself, in the end he invented a better past. Isenberg argues that even though Earp, who died in 1929, did not live to see it, Hollywood's embrace of him as a paragon of law and order was his greatest confidence game of all. A searching account of the man and his enduring legend, and a book about our national fascination with extrajudicial violence, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life is a resounding biography of a singular American figure.

Author : Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book I Married Wyatt Earp written by Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Lubet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030010426X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Tombstone written by Steven Lubet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030771649X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mickey and Willie written by Allen Barra and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed 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.

Author : Jeff Guinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439154252
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Gunfight written by Jeff Guinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.