A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
edited by Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts and Casey Tefertiller
University of North Texas Press, 2019
Cloth: 978-1-57441-773-9 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-783-8
Library of Congress Classification F786.E18W93 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 978.02092
Cloth: 978-1-57441-773-9 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-783-8
Library of Congress Classification F786.E18W93 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 978.02092
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Life of Wyatt Earp–A Timeline
Maps
Prologue
Part I: Wyatt Earp, the Man and the Myth: An Overview
Chapter 1: Wyatt Earp: The Search for Order on the Last Frontier
Chapter 2: Showdown at the Hollywood Corral: Wyatt Earp and the Movies
Chapter 3: Historians’ Gunfight
Chapter 4: Finding Wyatt
Part II: Riding a Troubled Trail
Chapter 5: Father of the “Fighting Earps”
Chapter 6: Wyatt Earp Was Born Here: Monmouth and the Earps, 1845–1859
Chapter 7: Wyatt Earp, Outlaw of the Cherokee Nation
Chapter 8: The Peoria Bummer: Wyatt Earp’s Lost Year
Part III: A New Start in Kansas
Chapter 9: Wyatt Earp, Wichita Policeman, Part One
Chapter 10: Wyatt Earp, Wichita Policeman, Part Two
Chapter 11: The Dodge City Underworld
Chapter 12: James W. Kenedy: Cattleman, Texas Ranger, Gambler and “Fiend in Human Form”
Chapter 13: Wyatt Earp’s Buntline Special
Chapter 14: Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt and Doc
Part IV: Triumph and Tragedy in Tombstone
Chapter 15: With Murder Rates Higher than Modern New York or Los Angeles: Homicide Rates Involving the Arizona Cow-Boys, 1880–1882
Chapter 16: The Gambler’s War in Tombstone: Fact or Artifact?
Chapter 17: The Other Ike and Billy: The Heslet Brothers in Grant County, New Mexico
Chapter 18: Lawman Bob Paul’s Doc and Wyatt Connection
Chapter 19: Wells Fargo and the Earp Brothers: Cash Books Talk
Chapter 20: Wyatt Earp, Jack Johnson,and the Notorious Blount Brothers
Chapter 21: The Dedicated Women Behind the Earp Men
Chapter 22: Big Nose Kate and Mary Katherine Cummings: Same Person, Different Lives
Chapter 23: O.K. Corral: A Gunfight Shrouded in Mystery
Chapter 24: “Blaze Away!” Doc Holliday’s Role in the West’s Most Famous Gunfight
Chapter 25: Were the McLaurys Leaving Tombstone?
Chapter 26: The Will of McLaury
Chapter 27: Behan’s Lies
Chapter 28: H.F. Sills, Mystery Man of the O.K. Corral Shootout
Chapter 29: The Spicer Hearing and H.F. Sills
Chapter 30: Conflict of Interest at the O.K. Corral
Chapter 31: Sensory Deception
Chapter 32: Justice in Tombstone
Chapter 33: Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Posse
Chapter 34: The Assassination of Frank Stilwell
Chapter 35: Gunfight in the Whetstone Mountains
Chapter 36: The Split: Did Doc and Wyatt Split Because of a Racial Slur?
Chapter 37: Dangerous Charm: John Ringo of Tombstone
Photo Gallery
Part V: Riding Toward Sunset
Chapter 38: Wyatt Earp—The Boomtown Sport
Chapter 39: The Man Behind the Dodge City War
Chapter 40: Wyatt Earp Turned to Business in Idaho
Chapter 41: The Harqua Hala—Wyatt Earp’s Unknown Arizona Boomtown
Chapter 42: Wyatt Earp Returns to Arizona
Chapter 43: Wyatt Earp’s 1897 Yuma and Cibola Sojourns
Chapter 44: Wyatt Earp in Seattle
Chapter 45: Wyatt Earp’s Alaskan Adventure
Chapter 46: The Great Wyatt Earp Oil Rip-Off
Chapter 47: Thomas Mulqueen: Two-Fisted Gambler
Part VI: The Making of a Legend
Chapter 48: Wyatt Earp: The Good Side of a “Bad Man”— Religion in the Life of a Lawman
Chapter 49: Wyatt Earp Talks “Pretty”: A Look at Wyatt Earp’s Interaction with Interviewers, Writers and Historians
Chapter 50: Resolving Earp Myths
Chapter 51: Wyatt Earp in Hollywood: The Untold Story of How Wyatt Earp Got Ripped off by Outlaws in the Last Outlaw Town
Chapter 52: Wyatt Earp’s First Film: William S. Hart’s Wild Bill Hickok
Chapter 53: Wyatt on the Set
Chapter 54: The International O.K. Corral
Part VII: They Varied Wyatt Earp
Chapter 55: The Real Tombstone Travesty: The Earp Controversy from Bechdolt to Boyer
Chapter 56: Wyatt Earp: Man versus Myth
Chapter 57: Allie’s Story: Mrs. Virgil Earp and the “Tombstone Travesty”
Chapter 58: What was not in Tombstone Travesty
Chapter 59: The Long, Long Road to the Great Debate
Chapter 60: Trailing an American Mythmaker: History and Glenn G. Boyer’s Tombstone Vendetta
Chapter 61: I Varied Wyatt Earp
Chapter 62: Evidence, Interpretation and Speculation: Thoughts on Kaloma (The Purported Photograph of Josie Earp)
Chapter 63: Writing Wyatt
Epilogue: “Suppose … Suppose ...” Wyatt Earp, Frontier Violence, Myth, and History
Contributors
Bibliographies
Index
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