The Real Wyatt Earp: A Documentary Biography

In the annals of the West, only Billy the Kid rivals Wyatt Earp as a household name and figure of history. Yet who was Wyatt Earp? Some biographers, many relying on the memoirs of Earp himself, have portrayed Wyatt’s adventures in Dodge City, Tombstone, and beyond, as the daring-do of a near flawless lawman and Western hero. Others have attempted to portray Marshal Earp as an outlaw and scoundrel of the first rank, a man who hid his crimes behind a badge. In "The Real Wyatt Earp," Steve Gatto has sifted through vivid newspaper accounts, court records and documents of Wyatt Earp’s West, analyzed them, and reproduced them so the reader might judge for himself. He thus uncovers the real Wyatt Earp, a man far more complex and interesting than the lawman of Hollywood and popular history., ISBN13: 9780944383513 ISBN10: 0944383513 Material Type: paperback