After you read the above-referenced book, track down the book that STARTED the legend: "Wyatt Earp - Frontier Marshall", by Stuart N. Lake. If this book hadn't been written, the "Gunfight at the OK Corral" (a phrase Lake coined) would have just been a footnote in the dusty history of a played-out silver town in Southern Arizona. Thanks to Lake, we have the Earp legend...and all of the phooforaw that has gone with it over the years. I submit to you now, as a long-time (now former) resident of Sierra Vista, AZ, that if Lake had not written that book, Tombstone would be GONE...nothing but another Arizona ghost town. So, while we sometimes diminish Lake as being a profiteering showboat, if it wasn't for him, a large part of the Legend of the West wouldn't exist.