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11) Wyatt Earp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Readers will find out about the extraordinary life of Wyatt Earp, a well-known lawman of the Wild West. Includes further reading suggestions and internet addresses"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
In a violent half-minute, in a gunfight near the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp became a legend. He was thirty-three. He died forty-eight years later, in Hollywood, where he worked as an advisor on film westerns. He'd had firsthand experience in the creation of American myth, and in this remarkable volume, Allen Barra illuminates fully the man who strode into our national imagination, as well as the myths that have continually reinvented him in history,...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as one of "eight notable Oklahomans," the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and Texas makes his accomplishments all the more remarkable. Bucking the odds ("I'm sorry, we didn't keep black people's history," a clerk at one of Oklahoma's local historical societies answered a query), Art T. Burton sifts...
15) Wyatt Earp
Series
Wild west volume 1
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As a young man, Wyatt Earp was a caricature of the Western lawman, spending his days drinking in saloons, gambling, and visiting brothels. He gained notoriety as the legendary gunman in the shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, but shortly after his death in 1929, distressed Americans down on their luck transformed Wyatt Earp into a folk hero.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This revealing first person narrative, by one of the founders of the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more than five hundred informants, offers an eye opening, dead on authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law enforcement's frustration with the criminal underworld and a serpentine series of hit or miss rules and mistakes give rise to one of the most significant and endlessly fascinating government run programs...
19) Wyatt Earp
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates events in the personal and professional life of a marshal with nerves of steel, Wyatt Earp, who was known as a peacemaker until the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.