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Guinn, Jeff.
The last gunfight :
the real story of the shootout at the O.K. Corral-- and how it changed the American west /
Jeff Guinn.
1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
New York :
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
2012.
392 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm.
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Copyright date: 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-374) and index.
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.
20180927.
Gunfights
Arizona
Tombstone.
Violence
Arizona
Tombstone
History
19th century.
Outlaws
Arizona
Tombstone
History
19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life
Arizona
Tombstone.
Tombstone (Ariz.)
History
19th century.