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Wyatt Earp's cow-boy campaign : the bloody restoration of law and order along the Mexican border, 1882 / Chuck Hornung ; epilogue by Jeffrey Wheat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hornung, Chuck, 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.
- Earp, Wyatt.
- Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929--Family.
- Peace officers--Southwest, New--Biography.
- Peace officers.
- History.
- Outlaws.
- Cowboys.
- Law enforcement.
- Families.
- New Southwest.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Law enforcement--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
- Cowboys--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
- Outlaws--Southwest, New--History--19th century.
- Southwest, New--History--19th century.
- Southwest, New.
- Cochise County (Ariz.)--History--19th century.
- Cochise County (Ariz.).
- Southwest, New--Biography.
- Arizona--Cochise County.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 304 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- Summary:
- "The author examines the details of the letter, including the shotgun dual between Earp and Curly Bill, the split between Earp and Doc Holliday, sanctuary for the Earp posse in Colorado and Holliday's extradition fight, Earp's covert assault resulting in Johnny Ringo's death, and the controversial courtship and marriage of Earp and Josephine Marcus"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part One. Frontier paladins and some jokers
- Wyatt Earp : the man, the legend, the myth
- John Henry Holliday, DDS
- A man called Bat
- Some first-class paladins
- Some first-class jokers
- Part Two. "The lion of Tombstone"
- The Earp brothers, Tombstone businessmen
- The Earp brothers, law enforcement officers
- The Cochise County cow-boy war
- For Morg ... another for Morg ... and another
- Good-bye, Tombstone
- Part Three. The "Otero letter"
- New Mexico's campaign against the cow-boys
- Ockham's razor : the "Otero letter," fact or fiction?
- The Otero family of New Mexico
- Days in New Albuquerque
- Destination: Colorado
- The legal fight to save Doc Holliday
- Wyatt Earp vs. Johnny Ringo
- Wyatt Earp and Josephine Marcus
- Final observations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476663449
- 1476663440
- OCLC:
- 917343492
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