Wyatt Earp was a Boomer. As are most of the writers and historians arguing about him in this issue. Granted, the term Boomer has slightly different meanings here: Earp followed the boomtowns in the Old West (thus he was called a “Boomer”) while we historically hysterical pontificators are members of the post WWII “baby boom.” Thus we are Boomers celebrating and debating the value of a Boomer. Make sense? One thing I had never considered kind of jumped out at me as we were putting this i


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