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Last Gunfight, The

By: Simon & Schuster

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical & Reference Books (Simon & Schuster)


Product Info

Title
Last Gunfight, The
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2012
Pages
416
Dimensions
5.5x8.5x1"
NKG Part #
2148009007
Type
Softcover

Description

On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a frontier populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones. It’s a colorful story—but the truth is even better.

Drawing on new material from private collections—including diaries, letters, and Wyatt Earp’s own hand-drawn sketch of the shootout’s conclusion—as well as archival research, Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what actually happened that day in Tombstone and why.