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Andrew C. Isenberg

Biography

Andrew C. Isenberg

Andrew C. Isenberg is the author of MINING CALIFORNIA: An Ecological History and THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BISON: An Environmental History, 1750–1920 and the editor of THE NATURE OF CITIES: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. He is a historian at Temple University and lives in Penn Valley, PA.

Andrew C. Isenberg

Books by Andrew C. Isenberg

Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
by Andrew C. Isenberg - Biography, History, Nonfiction

As the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals, the Hollywood Wyatt Earp is largely a fiction --- one created by Earp himself. The lawman played on-screen by Henry Fonda and Burt Lancaster is stubbornly duty-bound; in actuality, Earp led a life of impulsive lawbreaking and shifting identities. When he wasn’t wearing a badge, he was variously a thief, a brothel bouncer, a gambler and a confidence man.