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Isenberg (history, Temple Univ.; Mining California: An Ecological History) pulls no punches in his critical examination of the image of Wyatt Earp—best known for his shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in 1881—as a heroic lawman. Earp was also a gambler who fixed faro games and a salesman who painted bricks yellow and sold them as "gold." Laying bare many of the myths and fictions about Earp in popular culture, Isenberg shows him to have operated ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More