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Wyatt Earp

Book Review: Dodge City by Tom Clavin

By David Cranmer

March 19, 2018

Now in paperback, Dodge City by Tom Clavin is the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the Wild West—set in Dodge City, the most depraved and criminal town in the nation. The Wyatt Earp myth is spent, taking its place alongside Bingham’s Washington crossing the Delaware and Paul Revere shouting “The British…

Not Your Typical Wyatt Earp: The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurty

By David Cranmer

November 20, 2014

Larry McMurtry mentions in his brief introduction to The Last Kind Words Saloon, “I had the great director John Ford in mind when I wrote this book; he famously said that when you had to choose between history and legend, print the legend. And so I’ve done.” But the reader will quickly realize that McMurtry’s…

James Garner as Jim Rockford

In Memoriam: James Garner (…Beep)

By Clare Toohey

July 22, 2014

With his square jaw and magnetic charm, he played soldiers, lovers, marshals, judges, a sheriff for a day, gambler Bret Maverick, Philip Marlowe, and even Wyatt Earp, switching effortlessly between television and movies well into his twilight. But I'll always recall James Garner first in his role as the iconic P.I., Jim Rockford, the wise-cracking,…

All My Earps: The Many Film Faces of Wyatt Earp

By David Cranmer

May 9, 2014

Wyatt Earp is a unique breed—for more reasons than one—among the famed gunslingers and infamous outlaws who shot their way across the Wild West horizon. He lived so long, passing away in 1929 at the ripe old age of eighty, that he had time to mold and nurture his public image after it had become…

Wyatt Earp

New Photos of Wyatt Earp Uncovered

By Laura K. Curtis

October 25, 2011

According to the LA Times, new photos of Wyatt Earp’s early life came to light this week when two brothers discovered Earp’s personal photo album in an antique shop. Inside the worn, leather-bound album were more than two dozen tiny tintype and carte de visite pictures showing Earp as a child, a teenager and a…

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