Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life

Wyatt Earp In American popular culture, Wyatt Earp, a law officer in nineteenth-century Dodge City and Tombstone, is an icon of justice. This book shows that the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction created by Earp himself, whose life was characterized not by an unflinching devotion to law and order but by inconstancy and defiance of authority, among others. Full description