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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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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 citizen...
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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- Creator
- Jeff Guinn
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- Language
- English
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- First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 392 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781439154243, 1439154244, 9781439157855, 1439157855
- OCLC
- ocn646113159
- 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