The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West by Jeff Guinn Paperback Book

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

Author: Jeff Guinn

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: May 2012

Genre: History - United States - 19th Century

Retail Price: $20.99

Pages: 416

Synopsis

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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