1. Glenn G Boyer was a controversial author who published three books and a number of articles about Wyatt Earp and related figures in the American Old West.
52 Facts About Glenn Boyer
1. 2.
Glenn Boyer was the first person to reveal the existence of Wyatt Earp's second wife, Mattie Blaylock.
3.
Glenn Boyer's publications were for many years regarded as the authoritative source on Wyatt Earp's life.
4.
Glenn Boyer published over more than 30 years a number of books and articles.
5.
Glenn Boyer 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.
6.
Glenn Boyer died on February 14,2013, at age 89, in Tucson, Arizona.
7.
Glenn Boyer was survived by his wife Jane, two sons and three grandchildren.
8.
Glenn Boyer interviewed a number of Wyatt's relations including the Cason family, who had known Wyatt's common-law wife Josephine Earp as "Aunt Josie" in the 1930s.
9.
Glenn Boyer accumulated 32 boxes of correspondence with the Earp family, family pictures, hand-written notes, audio recordings, weapons, and memorabilia, along with manuscripts that he used as source material for several books, including the memoir I Married Wyatt Earp, supposedly written by Wyatt Earp's wife, Josephine Earp.
10.
The Wyatt revolver from Glenn Boyer's estate was expected to fetch from $100,000 to $150,000.
11.
In 2009, Glenn Boyer arranged with Legendary Publishing of Edmond, Oklahoma, the publishers of what would be his final book, Where the Heart Was, to have his VHS tapes converted to DVDs, and to have his research scanned and digitized, but no publication date was announced.
12.
Glenn Boyer finally volunteered that she had returned to the Arizona Territory in 1881 and joined Johnny Behan in Tombstone because he had promised to marry her.
13.
Glenn Boyer was disappointed and disillusioned when he repeatedly delayed the wedding.
14.
Glenn Boyer was ready to leave him, but Behan persuaded her to remain.
15.
Glenn Boyer said it contained details of Wyatt and Josephine's life in Tombstone that were missing from the story she wrote with the Earp cousins.
16.
Glenn Boyer said that the Clum manuscript had been written by The Tombstone Epitaph publisher John Clum based on conversations with Josephine.
17.
Glenn Boyer wrote that their work formed "the basis of the Tombstone years in I Married Wyatt Earp and "the Ten Eyck Papers in Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta.
18.
When questioned about the origins of the Clum manuscript during the early 1980s, Glenn Boyer changed his story to say that he did not receive the Clum manuscript from Colyn after all, instead it was given to him by one of Earp's nieces, Jeanne Cason Laing.
19.
Glenn Boyer said that the Clum manuscript could be found in the University of Arizona archives but they could not produce it.
20.
Glenn Boyer finally admitted that he no longer had the Clum manuscript and could not locate it.
21.
Glenn Boyer began researching Wyatt Earp after retiring from the Air Force in 1965.
22.
Glenn Boyer developed a relationship with Jeanne Cason Laing, the granddaughter of Virgil Earp.
23.
Glenn Boyer supplied him with source material for a considerable portion of what he wrote.
24.
Glenn Boyer's research resulted in three primary books: The Suppressed Murder of Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta, and I Married Wyatt Earp, and many other articles.
25.
Glenn Boyer included pictures of Old Western individuals that turned out to be images of his family.
26.
Glenn Boyer portrayed Wyatt Earp in a positive light without succumbing to hero worship.
27.
Glenn Boyer became recognized as an expert on Wyatt Earp,.
28.
Glenn Boyer's book gained wide acceptance as a memoir written by Josephine and an accurate portrayal of her life with Wyatt Earp.
29.
Glenn Boyer in turn received wide recognition as the foremost authority on Wyatt Earp.
30.
Glenn Boyer was asked to produce a copy of a key source document, the so-called "Clum manuscript", but he replied that the document had been lost and found and lost again.
31.
When confronted with allegations that I Married Wyatt Earp was a hoax, Glenn Boyer said he had been misunderstood.
32.
On January 29,2000, Glenn Boyer posted a note on Amazon.
33.
Glenn Boyer claimed he decided to drop publication because he was disappointed with the university's handling of movie rights.
34.
Glenn Boyer found a small publisher in Hawaii, shortened the title to I Married Wyatt Earp, and shifted authorship to his own name.
35.
Glenn Boyer said that he read a portion of Boyer's manuscript for Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta in 1977.
36.
Glenn Boyer called the book a memoirs of a journalist, Ted Ten Eyck, who was present in Tombstone while the Earps were lawmen.
37.
Glenn Boyer said Ten Eyck died in 1946, causing researchers to wonder how he could replicate this error before it had been made.
38.
Glenn Boyer says Boyer tried to convince her that Ten Eyck was real and that Laing had known him.
39.
Glenn Boyer's last book, in 2009 Where the Heart Was, was a fictional semi-autobiography loosely based on his own family and childhood growing up rural Wisconsin.
40.
Glenn Boyer inspired both extremely loyal supporters and a number of critics.
41.
Glenn Boyer was very choosy about who he allowed to view his library and files, occasionally providing authors like Ben Traywick and Lee Silva with access.
42.
Glenn Boyer invited Scott Dyke, a retired Wall Street broker, businessman, banker, and researcher who moved to southern Arizona, to help organize his materials.
43.
Dyke said that Glenn Boyer gave him permission to view both the Flood manuscript, dictated by Wyatt Earp, and Josie's story as told to the Earp cousins, known as the Cason manuscript.
44.
Dyke learned that Glenn Boyer had gained an oral history from Earp relatives who had known Wyatt, which Glenn Boyer relied in part for some of his work.
45.
Glenn Boyer donated copies of the Flood and Cason manuscripts and other documents to the Ford County Historical Society, including an original journal kept by Josephine Earp, Wyatt's wife, with the condition that he would approve who could see the documents.
46.
Glenn Boyer promised Gary Roberts and Casey Tefertiller, two vocal critics of Boyer's work, access to his archives, but when they visited him in person, he reneged on his agreement.
47.
Glenn Boyer was often contemptuous of his critics, calling them "homosexuals", "fanatics and their puppets", among other things.
48.
Glenn Boyer teased that he wouldn't reveal his sources just because he didn't like the individuals who questioned his truthfulness.
49.
Glenn Boyer wrote that she had hundreds of stories about Boyer.
50.
Glenn Boyer has succeeded in becoming a part of the Earp saga that cannot be ignored.
51.
Casey Tefertiller, a long-time critic of Glenn Boyer's work, commented on the auction.
52.
Glenn Boyer refused to bid on the Colt that was reported to belong to Wyatt Earp.