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Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life When he wasn't wearing a badge, he was variously a thief, a brothel bouncer, a gambler, and a confidence man. Isenberg reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a
| Title | : | Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (777 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0809095009 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-25 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern AmericaIn popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and al-Qaeda (after 2001).Yet as the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fictionone created by none other than Earp himself. The lawman played on-screen by Henry Fonda and Burt Lancaster is stubbornly duty-bound; in actuality, Earp led a life of impulsive lawbreaking and shifting identities. When he wasn't wearing a badge, he was variously a thief, a brothel bouncer, a gambler, and a confidence man. As Isenberg writes, "He donned and shucked off roles readily, whipsawing between lawman and lawbreaker, and p
Andrew C. Isenberg is the author of Mining California: An Ecological History and The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920, and the editor of The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. He is a historian at Temple University.
Far from disdaining authority, Earp consistently sought to put himself on the side of the law and of authority. And there are many other books that illumined the warts behind the facade. And protection from prosecution.
Isenberg also misrepresents Earp's eventual publicity seeking.
"Consumed in his last years with justifying his resort to violence in Arizona, he told and retold stories of his life as a law officer in Tombstone and in the Kansas cow towns of Wichita and Dodge City in the 1870s."
Wyatt Earp was never more than marginally financially stable. I have been trying to learn something about the people and culture of Ghana, and have ordered several books from Amazon. According to the author, it showed Earp's law-breaking ways when things did not go his way. Why do I smile every time I see or even think of Urakami Cathedral, the beautiful church which was completely destroyed by the A-bomb? Because I read this book. And Isenberg's analysis, at le
Isenberg also misrepresents Earp's eventual publicity seeking.
"Consumed in his last years with justifying his resort to violence in Arizona, he told and retold stories of his life as a law officer in Tombstone and in the Kansas cow towns of Wichita and Dodge City in the 1870s."
Wyatt Earp was never more than marginally financially stable. I have been trying to learn something about the people and culture of Ghana, and have ordered several books from Amazon. According to the author, it showed Earp's law-breaking ways when things did not go his way. Why do I smile every time I see or even think of Urakami Cathedral, the beautiful church which was completely destroyed by the A-bomb? Because I read this book. And Isenberg's analysis, at le
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