The Ellsworth Showdown has been popularly portrayed and discussed in books about Wyatt Earp. This illustration of the 1873 gunfight, by Lorence F. Bjorklund, was seen by only a few. Published in Enid Johnson’s 1956 book, Wyatt Earp, Gunfighting Marshal, the printing plate was destroyed and the book withdrawn from the market after Stuart Lake threatened a lawsuit against the publisher. Yet some copies had already been sold to the
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