I think it was in 1954 that my elderly next-door neighbor, Captain Billy, handed me a copy of Stewart Lake’s Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal. I read it, and I was hooked. I was probably 12 years old. Lake’s book had been written in 1931, two years after Earp died. It reinforced the Earp legend, which has continued to grow. Movies on Earp have been continual ever since, culminating in 1994: “Tombstone” and “Wyatt Earp,” both of which were reasonably accurate, unlike all of the others, and one of which made money: “Tombstone.” In 1955, Hugh O’Brian starred in a TV … Continue reading Tombstone, 2003