Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
The definitive life of a man Hollywood rescued from a reputation he had largely earned.
Casey Tefertiller went back to the newspapers, court records and correspondence to reconstruct Wyatt Earp without either the Hollywood varnish or the debunking that followed it. What emerges is a man who was at various points a lawman, a gambler, a brothel-keeper and a fugitive from a federal warrant, and whose account of Tombstone is neither wholly true nor wholly self-serving. It is the standard biography.
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Bryan Burrough
History has been kind to Earp, a onetime pimp and escaped federal prisoner who, in the Hollywood films of the past 75 years, has found the widespread adulation that eluded him in life.
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