Wyatt earp iii biography sample

On January 14, 1929, an obituary appeared in The New York Times, announcing:

NOTED GUN FIGHTER OF OLD WEST IS DEAD; End Comes to Wyatt Earp at Los Angeles After Life of Battling ‘Bad Men.’

“Gun fighter” wasn’t how Wyatt Earp wanted to be remembered. He would have much preferred “lawman” or “businessman” (see sidebar, P. 29). But a host of articles and books published in the 1920s had pegged him as a gunman, and Wyatt found it harder to confront a writer with an active imagination than a cowboy with a pair of loaded six-guns.

In May 1925, in response to a typical yarn in Scribner’s Magazine, Earp railed: “I have never carried a gun only upon occasion and that was while on duty as an officer of the law, and I am not ashamed of anything ever I did. Notoriety has been the bane of my life. I detest it….” Wyatt complained bitterly in letters to his close friend and silent movie star, William S. Hart, “I am tired of seeing so many articles published concerning me which are untrue.”

But the bogus national newspaper and magazine articles kept coming, and several books pushing distorted versions of Wyatt’s life began appearing, too. Frederick Bechdolt’s When the West Was Young came out in 1922, and that was followed in 1927 by Walter Noble Burns’ landmark book Tombstone: An I

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Wyatt Earp

American defender (1848–1929)

For different uses, performance Wyatt Earp (disambiguation).

Wyatt Earp
Earp at reposition age 39[1]: 104
Born	Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-03-19)March 19, 1848 Monmouth, Algonquian, U.S.
Died	January 13, 1929(1929-01-13) (aged 80) Los Angeles, California
Resting place	Hills staff Eternity Statue Park, Colma, California 37°40′33″N122°27′12.1″W / 37.67583°N 122.453361°W / 37.67583; -122.453361 (Wyatt and Josephine Earp's Gravesite)
Occupation(s)	Lawman, buffalo nimrod, saloon warder, miner, whorehouse keeper, enclosure referee
Years active	1865–1898
Known for	Gunfight cutting remark the O.K. Corral; Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey boxing parallel decision
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) take care of age 30
Opponents
Spouses	Urilla Sutherland ​ ​ (m. 1870; died 1870)​ Sally Heckell ​ (1872⁠–⁠1872)​ [a] Mattie Blaylock ​ ​ (m. 1878⁠–⁠1881)​ [a] [a]
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Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – Jan 13, 1929) was trace American defender i

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Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends

December 27, 2015

This is a wildly uneven book. When Barra is on his game, he's very good indeed; when he's off it, like the little girl in the nursery rhyme, he's horrid.

His purpose in the book is to explore the process by which Wyatt Earp became a legend. He's very interested in Wyatt's appearances in popular culture; he talks about the movies and the TV shows and also the children's toys and comic books and other ephemera. He's very good at tracing the paths which misinformation has taken, the ways in which the Earps tend to get conflated with their enemies as well as with other lawmen of the frontier such as Bat Masterton and Bill Tilghman. He's particularly good at breaking down theories and rhetoric and applying a reality check. There were four different points at which he particularly impressed me in this regard:

1. When Frank McLaury, just before the Gunfight near the O.K. Corral, told Behan that he would not surrender his arms unless the Earps did, Barra points out that McLaury is a civilian (for whom it is illegal to be carrying weapons in the streets of Tombstone in the first place) demanding that the city marshal and his deputies be disarmed.

2. The Doc-Holliday-Shot-First theory. Some witnesses in the hearing bef