death_place death_date birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
tucson , arizona 14 february 2013 wisconsin 05 january 1924 author family of numerous books and articles on the earp glenn boyer
 glenn g. boyer air force ; western author
glenn boyer

glenn g. boyer -lrb- january 5 , 1924 - february 14 , 2013 -rrb- was a controversial author who published three books and a number of articles about wyatt earp and related figures in the american old west .
his publications were for many years regarded as the authoritative source on wyatt earp 's life .
however , when other experts began to seek evidence supporting boyer 's work , he would or could not prove the existence of documents that he said he owned and had cited as essential sources .
in one case , an individual he cited as a key source was exposed as a complete fabrication .
his reputation and the authenticity of his work was seriously damaged .
although he retained many supporters , his work became surrounded by controversy .
one of his books , `` i married wyatt earp '' , sold more than 35,000 copies and was the second-best selling book about wyatt earp .
after many disagreements with university of arizona press , who initially published the book , boyer regained rights to the book and had it published by longmeadow press as a non-fiction autobiography .
boyer published over more than 30 years a number of books and articles .
he was responsible for publishing the memoirs of doc holliday 's common-law wife big nose kate , as well as the long-sought `` flood manuscript '' which had been written with wyatt earp 's direct input .
