The Last Gunfight
The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-- and How It Changed the American West
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2011.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 691 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (large print) ; 23 cm
On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation among eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a West populated by good guys in white hats and bad guys in black ones. It's colorful stuff - but the truth is even better.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Violence -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Outlaws -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Tombstone.
Large type books.
Tombstone (Ariz.) -- History -- 19th century.
Violence -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Outlaws -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Tombstone.
Large type books.
Tombstone (Ariz.) -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781410440228 (hardcover : large print)
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LP HISTORY Gui | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.