# A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told - Hardcover

by **Roy B. Young** (Editor), **Gary L. Roberts** (Editor), **Casey Tefertiller** (Editor)

Winner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association

_True West Magazine_ Editors' and Readers' Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year

Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He was a product of his time, often walking both sides of the street, sometimes on the side of law and order and sometimes as the law-breaker. Some see him as the "Lion of Tombstone," a hero lawman of the Wild West, whereas others see him as yet another outlaw, a pimp, and failed lawman.

Roy B. Young, Gary L. Roberts, and Casey Tefertiller, all notable experts on Earp and the Wild West, present in _A Wyatt Earp Anthology_ an authoritative account of his life, successes, and failures. The editors have curated an anthology of the very best work on Earp--more than sixty articles and excerpts from books--from a wide array of authors, selecting only the best written and factually documented pieces and omitting those full of suppositions or false material. Nearly all of the selections come from the last twenty years, when a more critical eye was turned to sources of Earp history. Many articles derive from the five stellar western publications dedicated to preserving the history of the American West: _True West, Wild West_, _WOLA Journal, NOLA Quarterly_, and the _Journal of the Wild West History Association_.

Earp's life is presented in chronological fashion, from his early years to Dodge City, Kansas; triumph and tragedy in Tombstone; and his later years throughout the West. Important figures in Earp's life, such as Bat Masterson, the Clantons, the McLaurys, Doc Holliday, and John Ringo, are also covered. Wyatt Earp's image in film and the myths surrounding his life, as well as controversies over interpretations and presentations of his life by various writers, also receive their due. Finally, an extensive epilogue by Gary L. Roberts explores Earp and frontier violence.

Readers of the Old West will appreciate this well-balanced, comprehensive account of the life, legend, and legacy of the incomparable Wyatt Earp.  

### Author Biography

ROY B. YOUNG is editor of the _Journal of the__Wild West History Association_ and the author of several western titles, including _James Cooksey Earp, Cochise County Cowboy War, Judge William H. Stilwell,_ and _Robert Havlin Paul, Frontier Lawman_.

GARY L. ROBERTS is emeritus professor of history at Abraham Baldwin College and author of _Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend_. He is widely recognized as a historian of the American West and frontier violence. He has published more than seventy-five articles on Western history and co-edited a book on Georgia politics, and is also the author of _Death Comes for the Chief Justice: The Slough-Rynerson Quarrel and Political Violence in New Mexico_.

CASEY TEFERTILLER is a former writer for the _San Francisco Examiner_ and the author of _Wyatt Earp: The Life behind the Legend,_ named a Notable Book of 1997 by the _New York Times_. He is also the co-author of _Mental Toughness: Baseball's Winning Edge._

**Number of Pages:** 936

**Dimensions:** 2.8 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** July 24, 2019

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