The Last Gunfight : : the Real Story of the Shootout at the O.k. Corral and how it Changed the American West
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Call Number: 979.153 Gu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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The West -- The Earps -- Tombstone -- The Earps arrive -- The coming of the cowboys -- Doc, Johnny, and Josephine -- It begins -- Cochise County sheriff -- The Benson stage robbery -- Plans go awry -- Escalation -- The night before -- The gunfight -- The inquest and the hearing -- "Blood will surely come" -- The vendetta ride -- Legend.
A revisionist history of the Old West battle challenges popular depictions of such figures as the Earps and Doc Holliday, tracing the influence of a love triangle, renegade Apaches, and the citizens of Tombstone.
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Everything you never wanted to know about the gunfight at the OK Corral. submitted by GJBarnett2 on August 16, 2011, 9:55pm A 30-second gunfight stretched into a 392 page book, including notes and index. Apparently thorough to the point of being encyclopedic but curiously flat in the telling.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 392 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781439154243
1439154244
SUBJECTS
Violence -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Outlaws -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Tombstone.
Tombstone (Ariz.) -- History -- 19th century.