"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

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

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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!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth reading, May 24, 2001

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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.

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