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In a violent half-minute, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. He was thirty-three. He died forty-eight years later, in Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on film westerns. He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable volume, Allen Barra illuminates fully the man who strode into our national imagination, as well as the myths that have continually reinvented him in history, film, and fiction. "Any future arguments will have to reckon with the evidence and explication that Allen Barra presents in this thoughtful, careful book." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Continually surpris[ing] . . . Barra's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious, his eye for human foible compassionate, and his nose for the odd fact irrepressible." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A grand, often fascinating account of a man . . . [and] legend" - Chicago Tribune "Provide[s] a fascinating glimpse into a rowdy, turbulent period in the nation's history by re-examining one of the legendary figures who made it so" - Cincinnati Enquirer "Wyatt Earp's hell-for-leather charge into the rugged territory between history and legend has never been better charted." - San Diego Union-Tribune… (más)
Despite the author’s claim in his introduction that this isn’t a biography. That’s pretty much what it is; with 8 of the 12 chapters focused on the story of Wyatt Earp’s life, one on Doc Holliday, and just a couple on the development of the legend.
It’s at times both a fascinating and frustrating read. The Earp biography includes some diversions around how particular incidents became skewed and evolved over the years, but the “legends” section is primarily focused on the movies and some of the early fictionalized “biographies” with no real insight into much after the 1960s, (Which since it was written in the late 90s seems to be an oversight).
It also commits a cardinal sin as Barra takes time to deconstruct several Earp texts for not using attributable traceable sources, and then does the same thing himself in various places.
An interesting, if flawed, addition to my Earp shelf - but there are much better modern Earp biographies out there. ( )
Wyatt Earp has been a hero and a villain, he has espoused the noble fantasies of the old west and its brutal realities and has been both a knight in the arthurian mold, righting wrongs and punishing wickedness and a brutal killer, a bully with a badge. This excellent book looks at Earp in all of his incarnations, the world he lived in and the times that shaped him. It also looks at how he has changed through the twentieth century, recast for each generation. Whatever the reality, Earp is a fascinating man, myth, hero and villain. ( )
Although partly a biography of the famous western lawman, this book is primarily an examination of how Earp’s life and legend (and some of his close associates, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, etc.) have been viewed and changed by biographers, novelists, television and motion pictures. This casually written book is a worthwhile read to all those interested in the west or how the west is portrayed in television and the movies. Having said that I must admit that this is worst proofed book I have ever seen. There is hardly a paragraph without a mistake, whether it is a misspelling, an incorrectly used word (to for two), typos (I don’t think there is a matched set of brackets) and to add insult to one of the main characters--Doc’s name is frequently spelled both Holliday and Holiday in the same paragraph. ( )
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An anecdotal and legendary history can be truer than the truth itself. —Ernst Renan, nineteenth-century French historian.
This is the West, Sir. When the fact becomes legend, print the legend. —From James Warner Bellahs's screenplay for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
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H. F. Sills was a thirty-six-year-old Canadian-born train engineer from Las Vegas, Nevada, who saw the wide open silver mining camp of Tombstone, Arizona, for the first time on October 25, 1881.
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In a violent half-minute, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. He was thirty-three. He died forty-eight years later, in Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on film westerns. He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable volume, Allen Barra illuminates fully the man who strode into our national imagination, as well as the myths that have continually reinvented him in history, film, and fiction. "Any future arguments will have to reckon with the evidence and explication that Allen Barra presents in this thoughtful, careful book." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Continually surpris[ing] . . . Barra's enthusiasm for his subject is contagious, his eye for human foible compassionate, and his nose for the odd fact irrepressible." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution "A grand, often fascinating account of a man . . . [and] legend" - Chicago Tribune "Provide[s] a fascinating glimpse into a rowdy, turbulent period in the nation's history by re-examining one of the legendary figures who made it so" - Cincinnati Enquirer "Wyatt Earp's hell-for-leather charge into the rugged territory between history and legend has never been better charted." - San Diego Union-Tribune
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It’s at times both a fascinating and frustrating read. The Earp biography includes some diversions around how particular incidents became skewed and evolved over the years, but the “legends” section is primarily focused on the movies and some of the early fictionalized “biographies” with no real insight into much after the 1960s, (Which since it was written in the late 90s seems to be an oversight).
It also commits a cardinal sin as Barra takes time to deconstruct several Earp texts for not using attributable traceable sources, and then does the same thing himself in various places.
An interesting, if flawed, addition to my Earp shelf - but there are much better modern Earp biographies out there. (