Tombstone : the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the vendetta ride from hell / Tom Clavin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clavin, Tom, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.

Earp, Wyatt.

Earp, Morgan, 1851-1882.

Earp, Morgan.

Holliday, John Henry, 1851-1887.

Holliday, John Henry.

Frontier and pioneer life--Arizona--Tombstone.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Violence.

History.

Vendetta.

Outlaws.

Arizona--Tombstone.

Outlaws--Arizona--Tombstone--History--19th century.

Vendetta--Arizona--Tombstone--History--19th century.

Violence--Arizona--Tombstone--History--19th century.

Tombstone (Ariz.)--History--19th century.

Tombstone (Ariz.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Act I The Territory

1 "Men of Restless Blood" p. 9

2 "Sunlight Into Our Hearts" p. 20

3 "I'll Get Every Son of a Bitch" p. 33

4 "The Only Stone You'll Find" p. 48

Act II The Brothers

5 "Desperate Characters" p. 57

6 "Three Peas in a Pod" p. 65

7 "Nobody Much Like Him" p. 78

8 "A City Upon a Hill" p. 92

9 "You Will Have to Fight Anyway" p. 106

10 "An Incredible Beauty" p. 118

Act III The Cowboys

11 "Give Up That Pistol" p. 129

12 "Very Lively Town" p. 144

13 "Strike Up a Tune" p. 155

14 "Dead When He Hit the Ground" p. 166

15 "I Hold for Nobody!" p. 176

16 "The Fury of the Flames" p. 186

17 "Revenge Seems the Order of the Day" p. 197

Act IV The Gunfight

18 "Rather Die Fighting" p. 211

19 "Geronimo Is Coming!" p. 223

20 "Kill Us or Be Killed" p. 232

21 "Right Here, Right Now" p. 241

22 "The Fight's Commenced" p. 254

23 "It Had Come at Last" p. 268

Act V The Vendetta

24 "It Was a Fight for Life" p. 277

25 "A Smoldering Fire" p. 291

26 "I'm Your Huckleberry" p. 304

27 "A Bad Character Sent to Hell" p. 317

28 "A Bloody, Wretched Business" p. 327

29 "Murderers and Outlaws" p. 338.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781250214584

1250214580

OCLC:

1112795279