Wyatt Earp: Gunfighter of the Old West

"A rare historical document now re-typed. John Henry Flood, Jr. was a mining engineer who meet Wyatt Earp in 1911 and become his confidant and personal secretary for the next 20 years until Wyatt's death in Jan. 1929 in Los Angeles. About 1920, Wyatt started telling Flood stories about his life and adventures on the Southwestern frontier, with emphasis on his Tombstone years in the 1880s. Altogether fifty chapters were written by Flood and the document was given to William S. Hart, the Hollywood Western actor, as a possible movie scenario. Hart even offered to get the manuscript published but was unsuccessful. The Flood manuscript eventually came into the possession of a retired Arizona school teacher, Alford E. Turner, from whom the undersigned acquired it on July 15, 1983 in Tombstone, Arizona. At that time Al Turner indicated that he had loaned a copy to one other researcher, but that he would get it back and destroy same. Whether this happened we do not know because Al died a few years later (1987). A few unauthorized copies have appeared from another source (probably the "other researcher" Al Turner referred to) but they are bogus. Our edition includes a map of the shootout drawn by Wyatt Earp. The original manuscript was transcribed in 1988 and copyrighted by NewMedia Communications. The original manuscript is in a bank safe deposit box in California and the first published copy was sent to the Carson City (Nevada) Public Library in 1988 at the suggestion of an editor of one of the Western magazines. In January 1997, in accordance with a promise we made to Al Turner, 100 copies were published and are being offered to Western history buffs, researchers and libraries."