[Arizona]. Ganzhorn, Jack

[Collection of Twelve Original Typescripts Which Became His Autobiography, I've Killed Men: An Epic of Early Arizona]

[Various locations in California: ca. 1920-1940]. [159] leaves, rectos only. Light wear, some chipping at edges. Some manuscript corrections and annotations. Very good. Item #6167

A collection of twelve typescripts by actor and gunslinger Jack Ganzhorn. Ganzhorn (1878-1956) was an Arizona cowboy, soldier, and silent film actor; he also wrote articles and short stories for Western periodicals. After a start in Arizona that included run-ins with the Earps and a career as a gambler and gunslinger, he served in the Philippine Insurrection before moving to California, where he made his way in Hollywood. The typescripts present here were all reworked into the published version of Ganzhorn's autobiography, I've Killed Men: An Epic of Early Arizona. Seven of the pieces here are labeled as "True Experience," while the other five appear to be fiction based on life. The non-fiction pieces are, "I Killed the Apache Kid" (9pp.); "Walls of Fire" (7pp.); "Three Close Shaves" (8pp.); "A Toxic Poison" (3pp.); "Looking Backward Through Gunsmoke" (7pp.); "Gambling and Gunners" (9pp.); and "Kill the Gringoes" (9pp.). The fiction works are: "Flame Dawsom" (33pp.); "The First Born" (5pp.); "Like Father, Like Son" (5pp.); "The Payoff in Paystreak" (30pp.); and "Two Red Aces" (34pp.). "A little-known book which gives an account of the Earp-Clanton feud and the O K Corral fight. The author was reared in Tombstone and has a low opinion of the Earps. He says that when he was a boy taking a stagecoach trip with his stepmother, Doc Holliday started to hold up the stage and then recognized his stepmother and rode off with his followers" - Adams. A copy of Ganzhorn's autobiography is included with the group.
Six-Guns 796 (ref).

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