Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta

by G.G. Boyer

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963177222
• ISBN13: 9780963177223
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Talei Publishers
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.2" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Best Source of Earp Material to date.

this is about the best researched book I have ever read on wyatt earp. The pages grip to and make you not want to put the book down until it ends.

Excellent Book - Must read for any Earp Fan

First of all, let's get something out of the way. While some have criticized this books credibility, the author clearly details his vast and unparalleled access to sources who know what happened, and even has pictures of himself with some of the contributors. Having studied the field of Earp and the Old West, I can confidently state that I believe that what is in here is just as accurate or more so as nearly anything else I've read. For example, some authors' works are deemed "credible" if they cite newspaper articles from the day. Okay...take Tombstone for instance. It had a number of newspapers which gave wildly different accounts of events, depending upon the political persuasion of the editor. Hardly a 100% accurate source (i.e. SOMEONE was lying!) So why is this book any less credible than others? If you want a book that cites a bunch of dry newspaper articles, and gives a black and white chronology of events at Tombstone, there are plenty to choose from. If you want a book that is very well written and answers a lot of questions previously unknown, I recommend this one. I couldn't put it down. Perhaps the best book I have read on Earp/Tombstone history, and will likely read it again. Dave in Iowa

You Won't Put It Down!!!

As another reviewer has written, this book will grab you on Page One. I have never read a better Historical Novel. This is Boyer's true masterpiece and should be owned by all Western Buffs!!! The insight in which Boyer rights of the Earp's is legendary and he puts it all together in this gem!!! I have read this at least 5 times and find something new with each visit. Buy this now!!!

Well worth reading

I read Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta for the first time--and enjoyed it--shortly after I became interested in Tombstone, Arizona and the people who lived there in the early 1880s. I read it for the second time after I had become much more familiar with the history of the town and the story of Wyatt Earp, and I enjoyed it much more. The more knowledge one has about Tombstone and its "players," the more they will come to life in a reading of this book.

This book grabs you on the first page.

"Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta" is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the true story of the Earp's in Tombstone. Boyer is the only writer today who had intimate knowledge obtained from the family of Wyatt Earp. The author tells us the story through a fictitious narrator named Ted Ten Eyck who arrives in Tombstone via the stage from Benson, Az. A fellow passenger on that stage is none other than Curly Bill himself. The book grabs you on the first page and transports you back to the streets of old Tombstone. You can almost taste and smell the old boom town. Glenn Boyer uses his considerable skills as a writer to blend cold verifiable facts with Earp family remembrances to tell us the entire story for the first time; the politics of an important mining district in conflict with the cattle ranchers (rustlers ?) who came first.....the struggle for control of the town and the cripply injury to Virgil, and the murder of brother Morgan. I found the characters came alive as real people instead of the wooden and lifeless characters within the history books. This book is a MUST for the Earp buff and for the first-time reader of Earpinan. This is a book you have to have. Enjoy it... Jim Groom

Comment on the controversy over this book.

Vendetta is a non-fiction novel using a straw man as anarrator to overcome reticence of those who provided the informationin many cases. The author used this device in lieu of not divulging the information at all to a wide interested audience. It has been understood and applauded by many and attacked by a few non-sophisticated critics. This is the true story of the Earp Saga at Tombstone, told at last. The author has a small, fanatical group of detractors who have attacked this book without any bonafide basis of their allegations except unsupported assetions.