Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
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Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931) was a best-selling biography of Wyatt Earp written by Stuart N. Lake and published by Houghton Mifflin Company.[1] It was the first biography of Earp, written with his contributions.[2] It established the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the public consciousness and conveyed an extraordinary story about Wyatt Earp as a fearless lawman in the American Old West. Earp and his wife Josephine Earp tried to control the account, threatening legal action to persuade Lake to exclude Earp's second wife from the book. When the book was published, neither woman was mentioned.
Author | Stuart N. Lake |
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Genre | Biography, later Historical fiction |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company, New York |
Publication date | 1931 |
Pages | 392 |
ISBN | 978-0671885373 |
OCLC | 31029184 |
F786 .E12 |
Lake's biography was adapted as the basis for at least three movies: Frontier Marshal (1934); Frontier Marshal (1939); and My Darling Clementine (1946). The 1955 television series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, was also based on Lake's book; its success made Lake into one of the first television moguls.[3] A number of writers and researchers have been unable to document many of the stories found in the book, and it is now considered "highly imaginative" and "largely fictional".[4][5][6]