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What are your thoughts on Stuart Lake’s book Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal? Josh Taylor Austin, TX
Much of Lake’s book comes from the fertile mind of Lake, but to his credit, it made a Western legend out of Wyatt. Lake also had to deal with Sadie Earp, who was a constant thorn in his side while he was writing Frontier Marshal. She was hell-bent on making Wyatt a legend, forbidding Lake from writing anything about his jaded past (or her own shady story). He also had a di

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