Wyatt Earp: The Man & The Legend

by Jim Wilson

  Wyatt Earp was a frontier lawman and Stuart N. Lake made him a legend. Some time in the early 1920s, Lake contacted Bat Masterson in New York City with the idea of writing Masterson’s life story. Probably just to get rid of the guy, Masterson told him that Wyatt Earp, living in California, was the more deserving subject. The result was that Lake published “Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal” shortly after Earp passed away in the late '20s. The book sold well and later was the basis for the very popular Wyatt Earp TV show, starring Hugh O’Brian.

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