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Though not specifically related to the CW, this comes within the range.
Glenn Boyer was a WWII vet and Wisconsin. During his time in the Air Force he interviewed the Earp family members, and made a career out of being an amateur historian of the West, specializing in that family.
He first came into the radar with I Married Wyatt Earp. He supposedly edited this "memoir" of Josephine Earp based on a few manuscripts, specifically a "Clum" collection, that he never showed anybody else, claiming it "disappeared". the book came under criticism not only for this but from both the errors and from his slow reveal that most of it was baloney, since he said he "combined" manuscripts to make it readable. His story about how he got the Clum manuscript changed hundreds of times, particularly about who wrote it. The woman on the cover is a retouched version of a NFSW pinup from WWI, and thus is not Josephine Earp, unless she was 70-something. He later backtracked and claimed in was the publisher's fault. The University of Arizona Press eventually sold back the copyright.
Additionally, The Earp family had loaned him a Cason manuscript to edit the memoir with, and in 2000 demanded it back. He threatened a lawsuit claiming falsification and "greed". Pot and kettle!
His response to all this? "So I put words in Josephine's mouth. So what? Stuart Lake did it. I admit to making it interesting enough to be read, which it appears to be alleged is unethical." In 1999 he confessed in was "100% Boyer".
In 1977 he wrote Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta, supposedly written by a Tombstone Epitaph reporter named Ten-Eye Eyck, who "witnessed" these things. He was later revealed to be totally a fake guy. Eventually Boyer admitted it was a "non-fiction novel".
He also supposedly had "Earp artifacts", including a Colt .45, but considering his record, that's probably all fake too.
He was first questioned by Jeffrey J. Morey, which opened the floodgates.
www.tombstonehistoryarchives.com
Boyer himself acted bizarre about the claims. When confronted about Eyck, he said "I was more than slightly amused that some in the Earp field were shocked and aghast that I used a literary device to tell the story." He proclaimed that "Writing about Earp and failing to mention me and my work is something like writing about Catholicism and neglecting to mention the Pope." Furthermore, "I am sorry that I ever wrote a f****** word about Wyatt Earp. I will never do such a g****** act of generosity for the public again. They killed the goose that laid the golden egg."
He said "I do not have to give a s*** about young historians, middle-aged historians, old historians, dead historians or historians who are not yet born. This is my f****** perspective. I happen to be a literary artist performing." Talk about deflection! Strangely, he labeled his critics "homosexuals" and sexually harassed historian Ann Kirschner.
Finally, he believed he "had a license to say any darned thing I please for the purpose of protecting the reputation of the Earp Boys, which I committed myself to do. I can lie, cheat, and steal, and figuratively ambush, antagonize, poison wells, and all of the others [sic] things that go with a first class Vendetta, even a figurative one." He passed away in 2013.
Glenn Boyer was a WWII vet and Wisconsin. During his time in the Air Force he interviewed the Earp family members, and made a career out of being an amateur historian of the West, specializing in that family.
He first came into the radar with I Married Wyatt Earp. He supposedly edited this "memoir" of Josephine Earp based on a few manuscripts, specifically a "Clum" collection, that he never showed anybody else, claiming it "disappeared". the book came under criticism not only for this but from both the errors and from his slow reveal that most of it was baloney, since he said he "combined" manuscripts to make it readable. His story about how he got the Clum manuscript changed hundreds of times, particularly about who wrote it. The woman on the cover is a retouched version of a NFSW pinup from WWI, and thus is not Josephine Earp, unless she was 70-something. He later backtracked and claimed in was the publisher's fault. The University of Arizona Press eventually sold back the copyright.
Additionally, The Earp family had loaned him a Cason manuscript to edit the memoir with, and in 2000 demanded it back. He threatened a lawsuit claiming falsification and "greed". Pot and kettle!
His response to all this? "So I put words in Josephine's mouth. So what? Stuart Lake did it. I admit to making it interesting enough to be read, which it appears to be alleged is unethical." In 1999 he confessed in was "100% Boyer".
In 1977 he wrote Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta, supposedly written by a Tombstone Epitaph reporter named Ten-Eye Eyck, who "witnessed" these things. He was later revealed to be totally a fake guy. Eventually Boyer admitted it was a "non-fiction novel".
He also supposedly had "Earp artifacts", including a Colt .45, but considering his record, that's probably all fake too.
Wyatt Earp guns up for auction in Scottsdale
Wyatt Earp guns, including one reported to have been carried during the O.K. Corral shoot out in Tombstone, are up for auction.
www.azcentral.com
He was first questioned by Jeffrey J. Morey, which opened the floodgates.
THA | The Curious Vendetta of Glenn G. Boyer
Boyer himself acted bizarre about the claims. When confronted about Eyck, he said "I was more than slightly amused that some in the Earp field were shocked and aghast that I used a literary device to tell the story." He proclaimed that "Writing about Earp and failing to mention me and my work is something like writing about Catholicism and neglecting to mention the Pope." Furthermore, "I am sorry that I ever wrote a f****** word about Wyatt Earp. I will never do such a g****** act of generosity for the public again. They killed the goose that laid the golden egg."
He said "I do not have to give a s*** about young historians, middle-aged historians, old historians, dead historians or historians who are not yet born. This is my f****** perspective. I happen to be a literary artist performing." Talk about deflection! Strangely, he labeled his critics "homosexuals" and sexually harassed historian Ann Kirschner.
Finally, he believed he "had a license to say any darned thing I please for the purpose of protecting the reputation of the Earp Boys, which I committed myself to do. I can lie, cheat, and steal, and figuratively ambush, antagonize, poison wells, and all of the others [sic] things that go with a first class Vendetta, even a figurative one." He passed away in 2013.
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