Wyatt Earp

Wyatt Earp is more than a legend; he's the embodiment of the American Wild West. It's easy to reduce a man of such stature to mere stereotypes and iconoclasm, to leave out the women who inspired him, or to rely on the slander of those he defeated; but forgoing the myths, wordsmith Larry Beckett skirts the overwrought icon and gives us instead the aches, loves, and morals of the flesh-and-blood human.

Wyatt Earp follows the famed lawman and his historic posse through the streets of Tombstone,...