Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster eBook. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Simon & Schuster. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP or visit us online to sign up at eBookNews.SimonandSchuster.com CONTENTS Epigraph Prologue Part One: 1907–1939 Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Part Two: 1939–1952 Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Part Three: 1952–1961 Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Part Four: 1961–1979 Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Epilogue Photographs Acknowledgments About Scott Eyman Notes Bibliography Index For Jeff Heise And for Harry Carey Jr., Who said, “Just put on my tombstone, ‘He rode with the Duke.’ ” Ride away . . . “That guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like John Wayne. I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I make a living out of him.” —DUKE MORRISON, AKA JOHN WAYNE, 1957 “Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach.” THE MOVIEGOER, WALKER PERCY John Wayne, with the customized, sawed-off Winchester he twirls in his introductory shot in Stagecoach.