Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta [Hardcover]

G. G. Boyer (Author), Ben T. Traywick (Introduction)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 325 pages
• Publisher: Talei Publishers; 1st edition (September 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963177222
• ISBN-13: 978-0963177223
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 8.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,076,777 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book grabs you on the first page., May 16, 1999

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This review is from: Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta (Hardcover)

"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

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Won't Put It Down!!!, April 2, 2005

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Randall E. Rankin "randy rankin" (Ellenton, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta (Hardcover)

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!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars The Capstone of the Earp Legend, December 16, 2011

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John Rankin (Longwood, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) (Hardcover)

Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta takes the reader on a fresh "ride" through those days when Earp was either fleeing corrupt officials to keep his liberty or avenging the death and disfigurement of his brothers that the local law had abandoned. A truly remarkable piece of writing from an author, who for sixty+ years has been the primary source of research on Wyatt Earp: possibly our most remarkable Old West figure. This is not a stale history as has been submitted on this subject by so many people, nor is it a rehash of material taken without credit from the sources of others. My only wish is that this book be given a reprint, as it is a great source for understanding 1880's western life as told by a first-rate author.