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Pub. Date
2005
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426 PAGES. $25.00. ON OCTOBER 26, 1881, WYATT EARP ALONG WITH HIS TWO BROTHERS AND DOC HOLLIDAY SHOT IT OUT WITH A GANG OF CATTLE RUSTLERS NEAR THE O.K. CORRAL IN TOMSTONE, ARIZONA. IT WAS OVER IN HALF A MINUTE, BUT THOSE 30 VIOLENT SECONDS MADE THE 33 YEAR OLD WYATT EARP THE STUFF OF LEGEND. DN
24) Wyatt Earp
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Wyatt Earp is a legend of America's Wild West. Books, movies, and television shows portray him as a fearless lawman who was quick with a gun and able to take down outlaws in one gunfight after another. The truth is that Wyatt Earp rarely had to shoot to keep the Wild West's outlaws under control.
25) Tombstone
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
Old-fashioned western based on the events leading up to the shootout at the OK Corrall.
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"Deception defined Wyatt Earp and the two women who were married to him longest. Their stories remained elusive, buried by the legend that emerged around Wyatt. Mattie Blaylock lived with him during the years when prostitution and corruption ran their lives, clinging to the lies she told herself and fighting to remain her own woman. Josephine Marcus deceived others her entire life, hiding her less-than-desirable past and opening doors to the role...
Pub. Date
©2013
Description
Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, John Wesley Hardin. Theyre all here in this award-winning film that separates the fact from the fiction about these and many other legends of the West.Nominated for two Emmy awards and Winner of the prestigious WESTERN HERITAGE AWARD for Best Television Feature, Legends of the American West utilizes archival and vintage photos, footage, classic art and spectacular dramatic reenactments to tell the...
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
This account of the court case that followed the gunfight at the OK Corral "will interest Wild West buffs as well as readers interested in legal history" (Publishers Weekly).
The gunfight at the OK Corral lasted less than a minute-yet it became the basis for countless stories about the Wild West. At the time of the event, however, Wyatt Earp was not universally acclaimed as a hero. Among the people who knew him best in Tombstone, Arizona, many considered...
32) Wyatt Earp
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
As a young man, Wyatt Earp was a caricature of the Western lawman, spending his days drinking in saloons, gambling, and visiting brothels. He gained notoriety as the legendary gunman in the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, but shortly after his death in 1929, distressed Americans down on their luck transformed Wyatt Earp into a folk hero.
33) Doc
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When two-fisted gunslinger Doc Holliday rides into Tombstone, he's ready and willing to help District Marshal Wyatt Earp clean up the unruly town, just as they did in Dodge. But to Doc's surprise, Earp has changed from a steely-eyed believer in law-and-order to a greedy opportunist who'll do anything to be elected Tombstone's sheriff. To ensure his victory, the unscrupulous Earp enlists Doc's help in double-crossing the most vicious band of outlaws...
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"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent...
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Pub. Date
2020
Description
Jennifer Earp Adamson, born in Southern California, enjoyed learning 70 different career interests. Her favorite job was being a volunteer firefighter, EMT, and ambulance attendant, in Idyllwild and Pine Cove, California. She is wife to Tom Adamson and mother to Meghan Sue. She loves Paris the cat (ambassador of Idyllwild cattery). She loves to chat and write about the Wild West and legendary Wyatt Earp, her ancestor. She is now an author living in...
37) Wyatt Earp
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Relates events in the personal and professional life of a marshal with nerves of steel, Wyatt Earp, who was known as a peacemaker until the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"The little-known story of how a young Wyatt Earp, aided by his brothers, defeated the Cowboys, the Old Wests biggest outlaw gang. Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. But the story of his two-year war with a band of outlaws known as the Cowboys has never been told in full. The Cowboys were the largest outlaw gang in the history of the American...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"At times, the black-hatted "villains" and white-hatted "good guys" of the Old West were one and the same. Often it was difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish who was who. Sheriff Wyatt Earp stole horses and ran brothels. Albuquerque's first town marshal, Milton Yarberry, was accused of murder and subsequently "jerked to Jesus." Burt Alvord, town marshal of Willcox, Arizona, and friends, robbed a train. Alvord then deputized these same friends...