Wyatt Earp A Vigilante Life

Name: Wyatt Earp A Vigilante Life
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ISBN: 9780809095001

ISBN-10: 0809095009

ISBN-13: 9780809095001

Edition: 2013

Authors: Andrew C. Isenberg

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An acclaimed Western historian reveals the man behind the myth and illuminates the realities of the old WestIn American popular culture, Wyatt Earp, a law officer in nineteenth-century Dodge City and Tombstone, is an icon of justice. The subject of dozens of films, his memory has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and Al Qaeda (after 2001). Yet as Andrew C. Isenberg shows inWyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction created by Earp himself, whose life was characterized not by an unflinching devotion to law and order but by inconstancy, defiance of authority, and repeated self-invention. The Earp played…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/25/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144



Map: Wyatt Earp's West


The Earp Family



Lex Talionis



The Sons of Ishmael



Youth Hath Faulty Wand'red



Jerk Your Gun



Wild Justice



Roping the Mark



The Shadows of the Past


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index