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EYEWITNESS TO DEATH OF WYATT EARP
[EARP, Wyatt (1848-1929), association]. LEWIS, Alfred Henry (1855-1914). The Sunset Trail. New York: A.L. Burt Company, [1906]. 8vo. 8 plates. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in red and white (extremities rubbed, joints tender, small marginal closed tear on p. 161). Provenance: Dr. Fred C. Shurtleff (ownership stamps on endleaves, inscription on p. 348; see note below). Later printing, INSCRIBED WITH A NOTE BY WYATT EARP’S PHYSICIAN. On p. 348, Shurtleff adds a footnote to a page mentioning Earp: “#1 Wyatt Earp died Jan. 13th 1929 at 8:05 A.M. I was with him when he died at 4004 W. 17th St. Los Angeles Cal. Dr. F.C. Shurtleff”. Shurtleff was a western physician and friend of American Old West lawmen Wyatt Earp and Pat Garrett. AN INTERESTING ASSOCIATION COPY, with Earp’s doctor’s inscription in a book outlining the “old days” of Dodge City with a dedication to Earp’s friend, Bat Masterson, who joined Earp in Tombstone in 1881 working as faro dealers, or “look outs”, at Tombstone’s Oriental Saloon. They would soon band together again in Dodge City to resolve what became known as the “Dodge City War”, coming to the aid of a friend who had been run out of town by Masterson’s long-time enemy, Larry Deger.