Wyatt In Wichita A Historical Novel

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597805681

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Wyatt in Wichita: A Historical Novel by John Shirley Pdf

Author John Shirley turns his pen to the Wild West and the legendary Wyatt Earp! Wyatt in Wichita fuses historical fact with fiction, following the adventures of the young Wyatt Earp. Following the tragic loss of his first wife in the Missouri of 1870 in his early days on the dark side of the West, Wyatt eventually makes his way to Ellsworth and Wichita, where by confronting corruption he would eventually finally find his life’s work as a tough lawman. Could Wyatt Earp have known Billy the Kid when the kid was really just that? Could Wyatt have met up with Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood? Using the sparse trails of historical evidence available to him, the lives of the famous and infamous intersect in Shirley’s novel, which revolves around Wyatt’s search for the murderer of an innocent young woman of Wichita. With Bat Masterson at his side, and bawdy girls about him in the smoky light of crowded saloons, Shirley explores the possible origins of the legendary figure who would forever remain synonymous with the Wild West. Stemming from a true passion and interest in one of the Wild West’s most indelible characters, Wyatt in Wichita is a thrilling read and an imagined glimpse into a seldom-seen side of Wyatt Earp and the untamed frontiers of early America.

Author : Daniel Wyatt
Publisher : Bladud Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1843195119

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The Cotton Run by Daniel Wyatt Pdf

An American Civil War story of love and greed as a Rebel blockade-running captain and the woman he loves are forced to deal with the collapse of the American South around them.

Author : Casey Tefertiller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004113321

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Wyatt Earp by Casey Tefertiller Pdf

A biography of Wyatt Earp, drawing from newspaper stories as well as personal accounts from Earp's friends, enemies, and acquaintances.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429945479

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Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life by Andrew C. Isenberg Pdf

Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America In 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 fiction—one 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 pursued his changing ambitions recklessly, with little thought to the cost to himself, and still less thought to the cost, even the deadly cost, to others." By 1900, Earp's misdeeds had caught up with him: his involvement as a referee in a fixed heavyweight prizefight brought him national notoriety as a scoundrel. Stung by the press, Earp set out to rebuild his reputation. He spent his last decades in Los Angeles, where he befriended Western silent film actors and directors. Having tried and failed over the course of his life to invent a better future for himself, in the end he invented a better past. Isenberg argues that even though Earp, who died in 1929, did not live to see it, Hollywood's embrace of him as a paragon of law and order was his greatest confidence game of all. A searching account of the man and his enduring legend, and a book about our national fascination with extrajudicial violence, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life is a resounding biography of a singular American figure.

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633553606

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Silicon Embrace by John Shirley Pdf

A near-future where technology and ancient spiritual secrets merge into something very strange... something as strange as a silicon embrace. America has suffered ecological breakdown and the Second Civil War. But the balkanization of the U.S.—along with humanity’s secret history and what has really been going on in Area 51 and UFOs for decades—are all part of a startling convergence which will transform humanity... or destroy it. * * * Reviews: “John Shirley has written the best novel of his career. Mature yet youthfully indignant, spiritually insightful yet carnally streetwise, his new book is aboil with ideas and action, full of keen-eyed speculations for the future and daring revisions of history.”—Asimov’s “Silicon Embrace is at once sly, sad eloquent, gonzo, mystic, surreal, and all-American, mixing the pulpiest Sci-Fi with true literary sophistication. A new gem from John Shirley.—Locus “Angels and aliens alike figure in this metaphysical SF novel from proto-cyberpunker Shirley, who here throws UFOs, black helicopters, several major biblical figures and spiritual transcendence into the early 21st century... it's clear that the author is having fun tying together disparate UFO, conspiracy and New Age myths; readers will have fun watching him do the tying, too.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States marshals
ISBN : OCLC:1306756853

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I Married Wyatt Earp by Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp Pdf

Author : Edward C. Meyers
Publisher : Hancock House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888396287

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Mattie by Edward C. Meyers Pdf

The story of Mattie Blaylock, Wyatt Earp's darkest secret, the truth about their relationship, and the famous lawman's lawless behavior. More than a complex and fascinating story.

Author : Richard E. Erwin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595001279

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The Truth about Wyatt Earp by Richard E. Erwin Pdf

The Truth About Wyatt Earp is the result of extensive research done by the author, Richard E. Erwin. After retiring from his career as a Criminal Defense Lawyer, he took up the task of ferreting out the truth surrounding the life and times of Wyatt Earp. He presents here solid evidence, based on old newspaper accounts, public records, documents buried in museums, state and national archives and libraries and reports of other researchers, to substantiate his view of what he believes to be The Truth About Wyatt Earp. Did you know... That Wyatt Earp was once indicted for horse stealing (He was never convicted.)? That there were four witnesses who could have testified that Tom McLaury was armed at the commencement of the O.K. Corral fight? That both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday spent more than two weeks in jail in the custody of John Behan while the hearing on the O.K. Corral shoot-out was going on? The truth comes out in this illuminating essay on one of the most fascinating characters in history.

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466882621

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Dodge City by Tom Clavin Pdf

The instant New York Times bestseller! 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 and turbulent town in the West. Enter Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Young and largely self-trained men, the lawmen led the effort that established frontier justice and the rule of law in the American West, and did it in the wickedest place in the United States. When they moved on, Wyatt to Tombstone and Bat to Colorado, a tamed Dodge was left in the hands of Jim Masterson. But before long Wyatt and Bat, each having had a lawman brother killed, returned to that threatened western Kansas town to team up to restore order again in what became known as the Dodge City War before riding off into the sunset. #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin's Dodge City tells the true story of their friendship, romances, gunfights, and adventures, along with the remarkable cast of characters they encountered along the way (including Wild Bill Hickock, Jesse James, Doc Holliday, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, and Theodore Roosevelt) that has gone largely untold—lost in the haze of Hollywood films and western fiction, until now.

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781633553699

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The Brigade by John Shirley Pdf

Saturday night in sleepy ultraconservative Salton, Oregon has turned terrifying. For thirteen weeks a killer has struck and a young woman has been viciously murdered. With all-American gumption and a lack of concern of legal niceties, the town has taken things into its own hands and formed the Town Security Brigade. Sure enough, the good-old-boy vigilantes seem to have scared the psychokiller away -- until reporter Anna Wimple shows up asking questions about the Brigade's rough justice. Anna becomes victim number fourteen -- or does she? No one is going to find out because the Brigade covers up her death. As the power of the Brigade grows, only two of Salton's residents seem to have the courage to stand against them. Tony -- 18 years-old, precocious, bright, anti-authoritarian -- and Sonja, his beautiful 25-year-old high school principal. As they uncover the truth, they mark themselves for death. Sonja is abducted and Tony -- with the help of doper mechanic Hustle Brodyboy -- must find her.

Author : Casey Tefertiller
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0471283622

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Wyatt Earp by Casey Tefertiller Pdf

"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and mostmeticulously researched." --Jack Burrows, author John Ringo: TheGunfighter Who Never Was "The most thoughtful, well-researched, and comprehensive accountthat has been written about the development and career of anOld-West lawman." --The Tombstone Tumbleweed "A great adventure story, and solid history." --KirkusReviews "A major contribution to the history of the American West. Itprovides the first complete and accurate look at Wyatt Earp'scolorful career, and places into context the important role that heand his brothers played in crime and politics in the Arizonaterritory. This important book rises above the realm of Westernbiography and shows the development of the Earp story in historyand myth, and its effect on American culture." --John Boessenecker,author Gold Dust and Gunsmoke "The ultimate Wyatt Earp book." --Professor Richard BrownUniversity of Oregon

Author : Stuart N. Lake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0671885375

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Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake Pdf

Tie into two Wyatt Earp movies--Tombstone, starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, and Wyatt Earp, starring Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid--with the definitive account of this American legend. Earp's life story reads like a movie, and now readers can experience his exploits in this classic account, originally published in 1931.

Author : John Shirley
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627933117

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Cellars by John Shirley Pdf

An ancient evil deep beneath New York City turns subway stations into bloody altars for ritual sacrifice. Monsters made of blood arise from drains, an invisible hellhound devours human flesh, feral children stalk the shadowy streets and make murder a terrifying game. Occult investigator Carl Lanyard risks his life, his love, and his sanity as he battles the unspeakable forces of darkness. A modern classic by a master of the macabre in a new revised edition.

Author : Scott Simmon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521555817

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The Invention of the Western Film by Scott Simmon Pdf

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Author : Roy B. Young,Gary L. Roberts,Casey Tefertiller
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574417838

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A Wyatt Earp Anthology by Roy B. Young,Gary L. Roberts,Casey Tefertiller Pdf

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. Some see him as 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. 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.