Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
Encyclopedia
Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931) (ISBN 9780671885373) is a book authored by Stuart N. Lake
and published by Houghton Mifflin Company. The book was supposedly written with Wyatt Earp
's collaboration and portrays Earp as a fearless lawman. The 1955 television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
was based on the book and made Lake into one of the first television moguls.
Stuart N. Lake
Stuart N. Lake was a writer whose material dealt largely with the American Old West...
and published by Houghton Mifflin Company. The book was supposedly written with Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer who served in several Western frontier towns. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, bouncer, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. However, he was never a drover or cowboy. He is most well known...
's collaboration and portrays Earp as a fearless lawman. The 1955 television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a Western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on ABC-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Earp. An off-camera barbershop quartet sang the theme song and hummed...
was based on the book and made Lake into one of the first television moguls.
External links
- Foreword by Stuart N. Lake from the Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KansasDodge City, KansasDodge City is a city in, and the county seat of, Ford County, Kansas, United States. Named after nearby Fort Dodge, the city is famous in American culture for its history as a wild frontier town of the Old West. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 27,340.-History:The first settlement of...
- Wyatt Earp and the "Buntline Special" Myth