Elizabeth Blodgett knows how to make a good fight an even better read. When she graduated with a Bachelor of English degree from Texas A&M University in 1989, she copyedited Jack DeMattos’ The Earp Decision, about Wyatt Earp’s controversial referee call for the 1896 championship bout between Tom Sharkey and Robert Fitzsimmons. Her parents Jim and Theresa Earle began The Early West (which published Earp Decision) in College Station, Texas, in 1978 by publishing their first book John We


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