Tombstone
The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
Format: Book
Edition: First.
Description: pages cm
"The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt ranchers. The Mexican government built forts along the border to try to thwart American outlaws, while Arizona citizens became increasingly agitated. Rustlers, who became known as the cow-boys, began to kill eachother as well as innocent citizens. That October, tensions boiled over with Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne confronting the Tombstone marshal, Virgil Earp, and the suddenly deputized Wyatt and Morgan Earp and shotgun-toting Doc Holliday. Bestselling author Tom Clavin peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone to reveal the true story of the drama and violence that made it famous. Tombstone also digs deep into the vendetta ride that followed the tragic gunfight, when Wyatt and Warren Earp and Holliday went vigilante to track down the likes of Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and other cowboys who had cowardly gunned down his brothers. That "vendetta ride" would make the myth of Wyatt Earp completeand punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.
Earp, Morgan, 1851-1882.
Holliday, John Henry, 1851-1887.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Tombstone.
Outlaws -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Vendetta -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Violence -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Tombstone (Ariz.) -- History -- 19th century.
Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.
Earp, Morgan, 1851-1882.
Holliday, John Henry, 1851-1887.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Tombstone.
Outlaws -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Vendetta -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Violence -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Tombstone (Ariz.) -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
1250214580
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Includes bibliographical references and index.