Tombstone Tombstone
Frontier Lawmen

Tombstone

The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

    • 4.3 • 70 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." T.J. Stiles, The New York Times

“With a former newsman’s nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we will ever get of the old West’s most famous feud.” —Associated Press

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, eight 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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2020
April 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
472
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
33.5
MB

Customer Reviews

wingster ,

Disappointing

This book reads like a 7th grader’s book report on the principals involved in the gunfight in Tombstone. Endless pages of uninteresting details on family histories, coupled with a plodding style that makes the reader long for good writing. As a book report, I would give it a C, but only because it is mercifully short.

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