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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends
by
Allen Barra
In a violent thirty seconds, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. The author illuminates fully the man who strode into our national imagination, as well as the myths that have continually reinvented him in history, film, and fiction.
Hardcover, 448 pages
Published
January 28th 2009
by Book Sales, Inc.
(first published 1998)
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I really wanted to love this book. After having read Doc by Mary Doria Russell (one of the best historical fictions ever), They Call Me Doc by DJ Herda and Doc Holiday's Woman by Jane Claudia Coleman, I was intriqued to find out what Doc Holliday's best friend, Wyatt Earp, was like.
I had a lingering doubt though hoping this wasn't going to be "yet another account of the fight at the OK Corral," and thankfully it wasn't.
But I just couldn't get into this. Its goal i...more
I had a lingering doubt though hoping this wasn't going to be "yet another account of the fight at the OK Corral," and thankfully it wasn't.
But I just couldn't get into this. Its goal i...more
Having watched the movie "Wyatt Earp" based on this book, decided to read the book. Only got 1/2 way through though. The story of Wyatt's life in facts...is pretty matter of fact. He and his brothers and all of their wives lived in pretty rough circumstances in the West. They were interested in making enough money to live comfortably. Everyone did not always get along. Wyatt was pretty handy with a gun, didn't like shooting at people. Didn't always make the people in his communit...more
Superb research by the author but the book is in a class by itself when it comes to the incredible typos.
Full of interesting information about one of the most famous lawmen of the Old West, but it felt very disorganized, and that made it very hard to read. Plodding through it became something of a chore.
This and Casey Tefertiller's biography of Earp are the most definitive and accurate life stories. Earp and his image fascinate me. My only criticism of this book is the editing--it borders on abysmal--way too many typos. Also, the author refers to John Wesley Hardin as Harding throughout. Sloppy.
I haven't finished this book yet, but I find Wyatt Earp the man very interesting. The movie "TOMBSTONE" is the only movie that closely dipicts what happened there.
Extremely interesting and well-researched, but inexplicably full of typographical errors.
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