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  • Wyatt Earp: The Biography by Timothy W. Fattig (2003, Hardcover).
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    The fight, the foul and the lawman

    • Kieran MulvaneyOct 26, 2013, 03:00 AM ET

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        Kieran Mulvaney covers boxing for ESPN.com, HBO.com and Reuters, and also blogs for Discovery Channel News.

    J.J. Groom and John Gibbs had a problem.

    They were the promoters of a scheduled bout between Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey, which they were billing as a contest for the heavyweight championship of the world. And yet, by noon on Dec. 2, 1896, with the fight slated to take place that evening in San Francisco's Mechanics' Pavilion, they didn't have a referee. Fitzsimmons' manager, concerned that the fix was in, had rejected every name the promoters put forward. Finally, afraid that Fitzsimmons was on the verge of pulling out of the contest, Groom and Gibbs came up with someone they thought was the perfect candidate. They just had to convince him to accept the job.

    His name was Wyatt Earp.

    Earp was 15 years removed from what would come to be considered the defining date of his

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    Wyatt Earp

    Government (19-Mar-1848 — 13-Jan-1929)

    SUBJECT OF BOOKS

    Allen Barra. Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers. . 426pp.

    Ed Ellsworth Bartholomew. Wyatt Earp: 1848 to 1880. Toyahvale, TX: Frontier Book Co.. . 328pp.

    Glenn G. Boyer. Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta. Thorndike, ME: G.K. ingång. . 411pp.

    Robert Briggs. Hurled into Eternity: The Story of the Earps in Tombstone, 1880-1882. Madison, GA: Southern Lion Books. . 110pp.

    Donald Chaput. The Earp Papers: In A Brother's Image. Encampment, WY: Affiliated Writers of America. . 261pp.

    Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp. I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. . 277pp.

    Richard E. Erwin. The Truth about Wyatt Earp. San Jose, CA: ToExcel. . 451pp.

    Timothy W. Fattig. Wyatt Earp: The Biography. Honolulu: Talei Publishers. . 944pp.

    Steve Gatto. The Real Wyat

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