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Original Title:	Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
ISBN:	0671885375 (ISBN13: 9780671885373)
Edition Language:	English

Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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Title	:	Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
Author	:	Stuart N. Lake
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	July 1st 1994 by Pocket Books (first published January 1st 1931)
Categories	:	Biography. History. Nonfiction. Westerns

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Wyatt Earp was the greatest gun-fighting marshal of the Old West, and in his time he was branded both a hero - and a killer. With his brothers Morgan and Virgil, and sidekick Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp brought law and order to the frontier outposts of Wichita, Dodge City, and Tombstone. He went mano a mano with the era's most notorious outlaws, but he always said he never shot a man he didn't have to. Today he stands for the wild adventure, reckless courage, and forty-five caliber justic of America's cowboy days.

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As Western legends go, Wyatt Earp was a latecomer. The general public did not become aware of him until 1931 when Stuart Lake published Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. It became a best seller and it established the O.K. Corral in the public consciousness and created the image of Earp as an incorruptible paragon of saintly morality who fought for truth, justice, and the American way (No, wait, that was Superman. No matter. Lakes Earp successfully fought the same battles, but without the benefit of

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please," Mark Twain quipped to Rudyard Kipling in 1899. Western fans have had their choice of facts about Wyatt Earp long before the film roundups of Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner and Hugh O'Brian. In 1996 I visited Tombstone, Ariz., 30 miles from the Mexican border and scene of Earp's 1881 OK Corral gunfight, to tell Twain's frontier journalism tales and dedicate the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper office as a Historic Site in

great book

I picked up a 1950s copy in a used bookstore. The price printed on the cover is 35 cents. The book is old a just shy of falling apart. I didn't have great expectations but found the writing surprisingly good! I would recommend it to any reader with an interest in western literature and/or Wyatt Earp fans.

Very good read although I'm willing to bet it isn't very historically accurate.

Originally written back in the 1930's when the author spoke to Earp's surviving friends, relatives and acquaintances, this is kind of true action-adventure biography that just couldn't be written now. It is pointless to speculate about how accurate or exaggerated the stories and anecdotes presented here are. What is obvious is that the character at the center of them had acquired an almost mythical status within his own lifetime - as the hardest man in a very, very hard place. My dad bought this