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Title: Not Impressed
Review: I must be from another planet. The positive reaction to this book leaves me confused. It's not an objective look at Earp, as is frequently said, but more hero worshipping. He actually lists the research done for the movie Tombstone as reference material!! I guess it says a lot about the reverence Wyatt fans approach him with that they think of this book as some kind of honest biography. The author sort of cops to what he's up to when he says that when all is said and done, Stuart Lake's bio had most of the facts right. How he came to this conclusion, I have no idea, but I think what he meant was that he and Stuart Lake had the same goal - to glorify Wyatt Earp. So we're still waiting for a good bio of this very interesting frontier character.
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