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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends
Inventing Wyatt Earp His Life and Many Legends
Author: Allen Barra
In a violent half-minute, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. He was thirty-three. He died forty-eight years later, in Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on film westerns. He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable volume, Allen Barra illuminates fully the man who stro...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786706853
ISBN-10: 0786706856
Publication Date: 12/1999
Pages: 426
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Publisher: Carroll Graf Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Wow! If you are and Earp fan or someone who it intrigued by the Old West, then this is the book for you. A lot of "factual" books about this person or this time are dry and difficult to get thru, but this book DOES NOT come out that way at all. Very interesting and the author carefully goes over other author's versions of events/occurances in Earp's life and why he believes them to be erroneous or only partially truthful. I found myself even more intrigued with Earp after reading this book! I kept excitedly reading excerpts to my family.


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