A Wyatt Earp Anthology
Title | A Wyatt Earp Anthology PDF eBook |
Author | Roy B. Young |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 937 |
Release | 2019-08-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1574417835 |
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.
Wyatt Earp
Title | Wyatt Earp PDF eBook |
Author | Casey Tefertiller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1997-09-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A biography of Wyatt Earp, drawing from newspaper stories as well as personal accounts from Earp's friends, enemies, and acquaintances.
Doc Holliday
Title | Doc Holliday PDF eBook |
Author | Gary L. Roberts |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 551 |
Release | 2011-05-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1118130979 |
Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They deserve serious study simply because they have continued to grip the public imagination. Such was Doc Holliday, and Gary Roberts has produced a model for looking at both the life and the legend of these frontier immortals." --Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "Doc Holliday emerges from the shadows for the first time in this important work of Western biography. Gary L. Roberts has put flesh and soul to the man who has long been one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history. This is both an important work and a wonderful read." --Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend "Gary Roberts is one of a foremost class of writers who has created a real literature and authentic history of the so-called Western. His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Corral and into the glare of history." --Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was "Gary L. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. Family members knew him as John. Somewhere in between the two lies the real John Henry Holliday. Roberts reflects this concept in his writing. This book should be of interest to Holliday devotees as well as newly found readers." --Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays
Mattie
Title | Mattie PDF eBook |
Author | Edward C. Meyers |
Publisher | Hancock House |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780888396280 |
The story of Mattie Blaylock, Wyatt Earp's darkest secret, the truth about their relationship, and the famous lawman's lawless behavior. More than a complex and fascinating story.
The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel
Title | The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Larry McMurtry |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 141 |
Release | 2014-06-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0871407876 |
New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Seattle Times The Last Kind Words Saloon marks the triumphant return of Larry McMurtry to the nineteenth-century West of his classic Lonesome Dove. In this "comically subversive work of fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books), Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Tracing their legendary friendship from the settlement of Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, The Last Kind Words Saloon finds Wyatt and Doc living out the last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. In his stark and peerless prose McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that forged them disappears. Hailed by critics and embraced by readers, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of our most original American writers.
Wyatt Earp Speaks!
Title | Wyatt Earp Speaks! PDF eBook |
Author | Wyatt Earp |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Peace officers |
ISBN | 9781435112056 |
Bucking the Tiger
Title | Bucking the Tiger PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Olds |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Dentists |
ISBN | 9780374117276 |
The story of "Doc" Holliday, frontier dentist, gambler and gunfighter.