Actually IMWE was partially based on the so called 'Cason Manuscript' I personal estimate it represented up to 35% of the book. It was very incomplete so Boyer claimed the rest was based on his so called Clum Manuscript. On my last two day visit in 1999 to his so called ranch, I questioned him at great length about the existence of the Clum Manuscript. He repeatly avoided showing me the Clum MS. However he asked me to publically admit on this site that I confirmed it's existence. Of course I refused. As I was preparing to drive home Boyer came out to my truck with a box which contained a lot of assorted articles, old letters and other correspondence including a letter he received many years earlier from Albert Behan. I spent quite a lot of time going through the various materials as he would not allow me to borrow the box. I admitted this was all valid but I again asked Boyer why about the existence of his Clum Manuscript He finally admitted that the Clum Manuscript was actually the "Clum Cache" ie: box of materials. I remember pointing out that everything in his so called Clum Cache seemed legitimate. I asked Boyer why didn't he simply say this in the forward of his book?. Boyer avoided answering my question. During my four hour drive home I kept thinking about how the process of the Clum Manuscript morphed into the Clum Cache. After arriving home I contacted Casey Tefertiller. Casey pointed out the obvious which I had not considered, Boyer in his own way was admitting there was never a Clum Manuscript. I remember Casey was mostly amused by the story.
One thing you need to be aware of when starting to research John Ringo is the role author Glenn Boyer played in spreading a fictional account of the death of Ringo. However, he presented it as historical... more
Hi, I was scrolling down the page, being new to this forum, and saw the name of Glenn Boyer...I wasted money years ago for the book “I Married Wyatt Earp”, saw the fake picture of Josie, and wondered... more
B.J., if you look at my post again, you'll see I was warning Karen about Boyer's fabricated account of Wyatt Killing Ringo. This did not appear t all in I MARRIED WYATT EARP, but was published several... more
Years ago at one of the FoT/TTR events, one of the speakers was a Cason family member. He clearly acknowledged the parts of IMWE was in the actual Cason manuscript and what parts were not in the Cason... more
Thank you for sharing this - I had a cursory look and will read it through properly soon. I am vaguely aware of the controversy surrounding that fellow…his name seems like a 4 letter word in this field... more
There used to be some outstanding wordsmithing whenever Glenn showed up here or over at Terry Clanton's website. For a while he sort of had a corner on the Earp market. Thumb through the bibliographies... more
Boyer publicly accused his perceived adversaries of being homosexuals or communists (or both) ..... trying to steal his secret Wyatt Earp files. His stepson: danny boy is a bully but for reason he has... more
WOW. I had read somewhere something along the lines of he faked a bunch of information for his books, which he tried to pass off as real, thereby leaving legitimate historians to try untangle the mess... more
I suspect if one were to follow the philosophy of "if you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all" there would be mostly silence about the man.
Glen idolized Earp. Maybe it was Lake book or the movies or the TV show. He wrote pamphlets and books about Earp and the Tombstone stalwarts and probably made a little money and what was for him a lot... more
My attitude about Boyer, having never met or communicated with the man is probably much the same as an art aficionado’s view is on an art forger- At best a grotesque curiosity, at worst a crook whose... more
As I recall, Glenn accused most of the men here as being dues paying members of the Peter Pan patrol. He didn't rightly care for the up and coming generation of western oriented historians asking him far... more
... was set up in a small guest house behind the so called Boyer 'ranch house'. The death bed was definitely the type of bed one would find in the 1920's California motor court hotels. However I have never... more
I am highly impressed that Albert Behan would be able identify Earp's death bed. The pistol auctioned off as Earp's, after Boyer's death, had had its serial numbers filed off. I reckon Earp had some free... more
But what in the name of Barnum is a "Boyer Cleric"? (I have my suspicions, but they aren't fit to mention in this forum.) Your story reminds me of another similar one about the Lizzie Borden... more
I’m not sure if you would have asked to sleep in Wyatt Earp’s death bed? I think that any man asking for that particular accommodation would have been immediately assigned to Boyer’s gay alert radar... more
I do my best work in the dark. Or so the rumor. No voodoux or seances though, at least that I can recall, but then, my powers of recollection, among so many other things, ain't what they used to be.
I didn't. Some of my colleagues did. There was a fire in a senior care facility and, just like Wyatt Earp in Lake's book, they assisted in the safe evacuation of all the seniors. They were invited... more
Towards the end there he seemed desperate for attention and even approval. Sort of like he was cornered by his own shadow. It's possible that he would have pretended to like you. For your ears.