gunfights

"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.

Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes chanrge of Bill STreeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaugther. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind Through the Keyhole.".