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Ride the Devil’s Herd: Wyatt Earp’s Epic Battle Against the West’s Biggest Outlaw Gang
Maybe someday
25
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Readers
40/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
John Boessenecker
Publisher:
Hanover Square Press
Date:
March 17, 2020
The little-known story of how a young Wyatt Earp, aided by his brothers, defeated the Cowboys, the Old Westâs biggest outlaw gang.
What The Reviewers Say
Boessenecker cuts through years of debate about who the good guys were in the Tombstone wars with fact.
...Mr. Boessenecker’s aim seems to be to chronicle the Earps’ adventures with more accuracy and in greater detail than anyone before. He has unearthed a lode of primary sources, including hundreds of contemporary newspaper articles, as documented in his extensive notes. This thoroughness is impressive—more than once he itemizes the internal organs ruptured by assailants’ bullets—but the sheer weight of information sometimes threatens to overload the story. For serious readers of Western history, however, Ride the Devil’s Herd may well prove the gold standard..
...an exhaustive account.
A ripsnortin’ ramble across the bloodstained Arizona desert with Wyatt Earp and company.
