Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends by Allen Barra (English) Paperba

Description: Inventing Wyatt Earp by Allen Barra On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O K Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those thirty violent seconds turned the thirty-three-year-old Wyatt Earp into the stuff of legend. This biography tells Wyatt Earps story. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those thirty violent seconds turned the thirty-three-year-old Wyatt Earp into the stuff of legend.In truth, however, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral neither launched nor climaxed a career that in the course of eighty-two colorful years took Wyatt Earp from an Iowa farm to the movie studios of Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on Western films. Along the way he saw real-life action as a buffalo hunter, bodyguard, detective, bounty hunter, gambler, boxing referee, prospector, saloon keeper, and, on occasion, a superb lawman. This authoritative biography tells Wyatt Earps story in all its amazing variety-a story the celebrated lawman shares with the likes of Bat Masterson, Earps colleague on the Dodge City police force; the tubercular, gun-toting southern gentleman Doc Holliday; and Josephine Sarah Marcus, a beautiful Jewish girl from New York City who lived and traveled with Earp throughout the last forty-seven years of his life. Biographer Allen Barra also examines the more fantastic versions of Earps exploits told during his own lifetime, as well as his incarnations in the myths that have flourished in our national imagination throughout the seventy years since his death. Notes An authoritative biography telling Wyatt Earps story in all its amazing variety Author Biography Allen Barra is a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, the Village Voice, and the New York Sun and is the author of several books, including Clearing the Bases (available in a Bison Books edition), The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant, and the forthcoming Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee. Table of Contents Introduction to the Bison Books EditionPrefaceIntroduction1. Wyatt: The Odyssey2. "Bloody Kansas" -- Wyatt Earp in Wichita3. On to Dodge City4. Tombstone: The Iliad5. "Three Men Hurled into Eternity"--The Streetfight in Tombstone6. Wyatt Earp on Trial7. Wyatt Earp Unleashed: The Vendetta Ride8. Putting Clothes on a Ghost: The Life and Legend of Doc Holliday9. The Lion in Autumn10. Hollywood Gunfighter11. Print the Legend12. Wyatt ReduxBibliographyIndex Review "Any future arguments will have to reckon with the evidence and explication that Allen Barra presents in this thoughtful, careful book." Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book Review "Engaging, detailed and refreshingly pugnacious." New York TImes Book Review Promotional An authoritative biography telling Wyatt Earps story in all its amazing variety Review Text "Barra, a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, does not attempt an intensive proof of the life behind the legend. Rather, he is concerned here with the process of myth making. He offers fascinating and provocative insights into how various individuals manipulated and twisted aspects of Earps life for their own purpose. Earp, of course, was not naive and played no small part in creating his own legend."--Jay Freeman, Booklist "Any future arguments will have to reckon with the evidence and explication that Allen Barra presents in this thoughtful, careful book."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Engaging, detailed and refreshingly pugnacious. . . . Barras well-researched, provocative study of the man and his legend offers us a welcome opportunity to consider what our several versions of Wyatt Earp tell us about ourselves.""--Richard E. Nicholls, New York Times Book Review "Barra is no garden variety deconstructionist. . . . [He] lines up the mythmaking process in his crosshairs."-- Chicago Tribune Review Quote "Engaging, detailed and refreshingly pugnacious. . . . Barras well-researched, provocative study of the man and his legend offers us a welcome opportunity to consider what our several versions of Wyatt Earp tell us about ourselves."-Richard E. Nicholls, New York Times Book Review Details ISBN0803220588 Author Allen Barra Short Title INVENTING WYATT EARP Language English ISBN-10 0803220588 ISBN-13 9780803220584 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Bison Books Subtitle His Life and Many Legends Place of Publication Nebraska Country of Publication United States Residence NJ, US DOI 10.1604/9780803220584 UK Release Date 2009-01-01 AU Release Date 2009-01-01 NZ Release Date 2009-01-01 US Release Date 2009-01-01 Pages 440 Publisher University of Nebraska Press Publication Date 2009-01-01 DEWEY 978.02092 Illustrations 39 images Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159778704;

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