The Last Gunfight
eBook - ePub

The Last Gunfight

The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Last Gunfight

The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West

About this book

A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about—“the most thorough account of the gunfight and its circumstances ever published” (The Wall Street Journal)

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue: Tombstone That Morning
  4. 1. The West
  5. 2. The Earps
  6. 3. Tombstone
  7. 4. The Earps Arrive
  8. 5. The Coming of the Cowboys
  9. 6. Doc, Johnny, and Josephine
  10. 7. It Begins
  11. 8. Cochise County Sheriff
  12. 9. The Benson Stage Robbery
  13. 10. Plans Go Awry
  14. 11. Escalation
  15. 12. The Night Before
  16. 13. The Gunfight
  17. 14. The Inquest and the Hearing
  18. 15. “Blood Will Surely Come”
  19. 16. The Vendetta Ride
  20. 17. Legends
  21. Photographs
  22. Note on Sources
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Index
  27. About the Author
  28. Also by Jeff Guinn
  29. Copyright