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- A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
- 2019
- Book
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
summary
Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Some see him as a hero lawman of the Wild West, whereas others see him as yet another outlaw, a pimp, and failed lawman. Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts, and Casey Tefertiller, all notable experts on Earp and the Wild West, present in A Wyatt Earp Anthology an authoritative account of his life, successes, and failures. The editors have curated an anthology of the very best work on Earp—more than sixty articles and excerpts from books—from a wide array of authors, selecting only the best written and factually documented pieces and omitting those full of suppositions or false material. Earp’s life is presented in chronological fashion, from his early years to Dodge City, Kansas; triumph and tragedy in Tombstone; and his later years throughout the West. Important figures in Earp’s life, such as Bat Masterson, the Clantons, the McLaurys, Doc Holliday, and John Ringo, are also covered. Wyatt Earp’s image in film and the myths surrounding his life, as well as controversies over interpretations and presentations of his life by various writers, also receive their due. Finally, an extensive epilogue by Gary L. Roberts explores Earp and frontier violence.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxi-xxii
- The Life of Wyatt Earp–A Timeline
- pp. xxiii-xxxi
- Part I: Wyatt Earp, the Man and the Myth: An Overview
- Chapter 3: Historians’ Gunfight
- pp. 58-78
- Chapter 4: Finding Wyatt
- pp. 79-86
- Part II: Riding a Troubled Trail
- Part III: A New Start in Kansas
- Chapter 11: The Dodge City Underworld
- pp. 189-207
- Chapter 13: Wyatt Earp’s Buntline Special
- pp. 221-226
- Part IV: Triumph and Tragedy in Tombstone
- Chapter 26: The Will of McLaury
- pp. 394-402
- Chapter 27: Behan’s Lies
- pp. 403-407
- Chapter 31: Sensory Deception
- pp. 447-450
- Chapter 32: Justice in Tombstone
- pp. 451-456
- Chapter 33: Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Posse
- pp. 457-465
- Part V: Riding Toward Sunset
- Chapter 38: Wyatt Earp—The Boomtown Sport
- pp. 512-534
- Chapter 42: Wyatt Earp Returns to Arizona
- pp. 559-562
- Chapter 44: Wyatt Earp in Seattle
- pp. 575-580
- Chapter 45: Wyatt Earp’s Alaskan Adventure
- pp. 581-585
- Chapter 46: The Great Wyatt Earp Oil Rip-Off
- pp. 586-592
- Part VI: The Making of a Legend
- Chapter 50: Resolving Earp Myths
- pp. 631-640
- Chapter 53: Wyatt on the Set
- pp. 651-655
- Chapter 54: The International O.K. Corral
- pp. 656-658
- Part VII: They Varied Wyatt Earp
- Chapter 56: Wyatt Earp: Man versus Myth
- pp. 675-686
- Chapter 61: I Varied Wyatt Earp
- pp. 743-749
- Chapter 63: Writing Wyatt
- pp. 758-760
- Contributors
- pp. 797-804
- Bibliographies
- pp. 805-838
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574417838
Related ISBN(s)
9781574417739
MARC Record
OCLC
1112901742
Pages
912
Launched on MUSE
2019-09-16
Language
English
Open Access
No