"Is he a liar now, or was he a liar then?” is the central theme of Glenn Boyer’s accounts on Wyatt Earp. “Caveat emptor” never applied more to an auction than the sale of Boyer’s purported Earp collectibles at J. Levine Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, on April 17. The top-selling weapon, Wyatt’s alleged Colt .45, was even stretched as possibly being carried by the lawman at the 1881 O.K. Corral shoot-out in Tombstone. Boyer’s “provenance” is a typewritten letter dicta


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