Westport's Tarnished Star: In Defense of Johnny Behan First Sheriff of Cochise County

ISBN-10
0973546727
ISBN-13
9780973546729
Category
Arizona
Pages
306
Language
English
Published
2019
Author
Annette Gray

Description

"We’ve all heard stories of Wyatt Earp and the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral, but do we know Wyatt’s nemesis, Johnny Harris Behan, the first sheriff of Cochise County? Was Johnny the scoundrel twentieth century media made him out to be? And what about Johnny’s co-workers, friends and relatives, how did they see him? Westport’s Tarnished Star answers all these questions—and more—when author, Annette Gray, takes you from Behan’s birth in 1845 to his death in 1912. The story begins with Johnny growing up in rural Westport, the busiest and most important trading center in Missouri in the 1850s. At age seventeen, he left Westport gripped in the throes of Civil war, only to find himself ducking bullets in Arizona. Never before has our Missouri farm boy—turned lawman—appeared as up-close and personal as he is in Westport’s Tarnished Star. If you’re looking for the flesh and blood John Harris Behan, his exiting adventures, his love life and his tepid relationship with Wyatt Earp, this is definitely the western you’ve been waiting for"--Goodreads.com

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