Wyatt Earp
by Casey Tefertiller, Casey Tefertiller
1997BiographyPeace officersPopular Print Disabled BooksEarp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.United States marshals
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NICHOLAS PORTER EARP, a widower with one son, married Virginia Cooksey in 1840, and five years later moved the family from Kentucky to Monmouth, Illinois.
NICHOLAS PORTER EARP, a widower with one son, married Virginia Cooksey in 1840, and five years later moved the family from Kentucky to Monmouth, Illinois.
About this book
Based on recently discovered material, including newspapers believed to have been lost as well as personal accounts from Earp's friends, enemies, and acquaintances, this definitive biography paints a superbly balanced portrait of the man who helped shape the modern view of the Old West. A rich panorama of nineteenth-century American culture and politics, Wyatt Earp brings a fresh perspective to the life of a common man of uncommon courage, whose ultimate wish was to live a quiet life. From the Kansas plains to Tombstone, from Nome to San Francisco, here is the complete, unvarnished story of Wyatt Earp as it has never before been told, with a cast of characters whose names ring with the very spirit of the Old West: Ike Clanton, Curley Bill, and John Ringo among them.
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BiographyPeace officersPopular Print Disabled BooksEarp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.United States marshalsPeace officers -- Southwest, New -- Biography.
First published 1997Characters & people
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New SouthwestUnited States marshals
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