tombstone (ariz.)

"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 each other 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 complete and punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town"--.

Examines the facts and fictions surrounding the life and legend of Wyatt Earp. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.

In her quest for revenge against the Guiltless Gang, who murdered her family, Grace Milton has cut herself off from Joe and the other people who care about her--but making a living as a female bounty hunter is more difficult then she thought it would be.

"On October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona, Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed. The lies began before the smoke cleared-- this is the story of the woman behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wyatt Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend that would become the epitaph her husband deserved."--Provided by publisher.

When Grace's parents and siblings are murdered by the Guiltless Gang for their Arizona horse ranch outside Tombstone, she vows to devote her life to revenge--but the Chiricahua she finds sanctuary with try to teach her a better way.

An account of the Tombstone, Arizona, shootout in which Wyatt Earp and his supporters ended their feud with a group of cattle rustlers.

Explores the life and legend of lawman Wyatt Earp. Examines the aspects of his life that gained him everlasting notoriety, notably his participation in the shootout at the O.K. Corral, and considers his role as both a hero and icon of the American West.

Presents a narrative of the gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and of the events that followed.

A biography of Wyatt Earp, one of the most feared lawman of the West, whose fame rose after a gunfight in Tombstone and a rampage to avenge his brother's killing.