| |  | Creator: Glenn G. Boyer
Publisher: G K Hall & Co
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 1082009
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 411
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0816159599
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.153
EAN: 9780816159598
ASIN: 0816159599
Publication Date: May 1994
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 Aptly categorized as juvenile Litterature October 22, 1999
10 out of 22 found this review helpful
As history this book falls far short. There are too many factual errors, assumptions and speculation to be taken seriously. Other recent books on thesubject would be a better investment.
 This book grabs you on the first page. May 16, 1999
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
"Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta" is a must read for anyone seriously interested in the true story of the Earp's in Tombstone. Boyer is the only writer today who had intimate knowledge obtained from the family of Wyatt Earp. The author tells us the story through a fictitious narrator named Ted Ten Eyck who arrives in Tombstone via the stage from Benson, Az. A fellow passenger on that stage is none other than Curly Bill himself. The book grabs you on the first page and transports you back to the streets of old Tombstone. You can almost taste and smell the old boom town. Glenn Boyer uses his considerable skills as a writer to blend cold verifiable facts with Earp family remembrances to tell us the entire story for the first time; the politics of an important mining district in conflict with the cattle ranchers (rustlers ?) who came first.....the struggle for control of the town and the cripply injury to Virgil, and the murder of brother Morgan. I found the characters came alive as real people instead of the wooden and lifeless characters within the history books. This book is a MUST for the Earp buff and for the first-time reader of Earpinan. This is a book you have to have. Enjoy it... Jim Groom
NEW DAY FOR WYATT EARP HISTORY BUFFS December 31, 1998
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
Someone is defending this book which the author admitted a year ago Oct was a LITERARY DEVICE in which he concocted the sources. Can that be HISTORY. IT reads well and would have made a terrific novel. Anything about Wyatt Earp is snapped up but let's keep history and fiction apart, otherwise our heroes will have feet of clay. I personalaly enjoyed the book and always thought that the author was being TONGUE in cheek with his Ted Ten Eyck narration. And even the Library of Congress was not fooled as they classify it as "juvenalia" ie children's lit. ie fiction. So perhaps we have a tempest in a teapot. The real question is "Who killed Johnny Ringo" I ain't gonna let the cat out of the bag. You will have to read to find out. This author knows a lot more than he says. What next" The definitive bio. of Wyatt Earp OR MAYBE THE REAL MEMOIRS OF Josephine Earp?
Much like Classical Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. April 26, 1998
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book entrances the reader with a sense of time and place. It is never clear who is narrating it in fact, but that is part of its charm - the reader is sure he is there, regardless of who is narrating and that the people, the Earps and their enemies, are real for the first time.
It has been said that there is no such thing as a non-fiction novel, and that's usually because the people who think so believe a novel means fiction per se. This is not so. A novel is an artisitic form and is a far more interesting way of relating history than the dry, footnoted fashion that drives people away from history.
When I was finished with this book, I had a sense of having personally experienced the adventures of the Earps in their Tombstone Vendetta.
I discovered later that the book is venomously attacked as a hoax by a few hard core Earp buffs. I can't imagine why. The overall artisitic impact and sense of reality overcomes any narrow objections to interpretations of facts in an area where no one seems to agree on the facts anyhow, regardless of how they are presented.
In my opinion, if this were the only book a person read about The Earps in Tombstone, they would know more about it than from all the others preceding this astounding tour de force.
Not the least of its virtues is that it does not leave unresolved the mystery of why the Earps remained in Tombstone long after commons sense suggested that they move on before they were all murdered.
Comment on the controversy over this book. December 25, 1997
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Vendetta is a non-fiction novel using a straw man as anarrator to overcome reticence of those who provided the informationin many cases. The author used this device in lieu of not divulging the information at all to a wide interested audience. It has been understood and applauded by many and attacked by a few non-sophisticated critics. This is the true story of the Earp Saga at Tombstone, told at last. The author has a small, fanatical group of detractors who have attacked this book without any bonafide basis of their allegations except unsupported assetions.
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