Born to the Badge: Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey Book Two - Paperback

by Mark Warren (Author)

Born to the Badge was a 2019 Spur Award Finalist!

Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, twenty-six year old Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed--Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life. As assistant marshal in Dodge, Wyatt establishes a reputation as an uncompromising peace officer, but he knows that police work will never deliver what he really wants: wealth and the respect of the upper class. After joining the Black Hills gold rush and then serving a stint as railroad detective in Texas, he returns to Kansas, only to pin on the badge again and inadvertently forge his path into history.

Author Biography

Mark Warren is the author of Secrets of the Forest (Four Volumes), Two Winters in a Tipi, Indigo Heaven, Song of the Horseman, and The Last Pistoleer. Mark is a lifelong student of Native American History and the West with a special focus on Wyatt Earp. He teaches wilderness survival skills at his school, Medicine Bow, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.