| International Standard Book Number |
9781250214591 (electronic book)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250214584 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250214580 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Clavin, Thomas. author.
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| Title Statement |
Tombstone : the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the vendetta ride from hell / Tom Clavin.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
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| Physical Description |
xiii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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| General Note |
Map on end papers.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The territory -- The brothers -- The cowboys -- The gunfight -- The vendetta.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Holliday, John Henry, 1851-1887.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Earp, Morgan, 1851-1882.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Outlaws History 19th century. Arizona Tombstone
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vendetta History 19th century. Arizona Tombstone
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Violence History 19th century. Arizona Tombstone
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Frontier and pioneer life Arizona Tombstone.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Tombstone (Ariz.) History 19th century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
True crime stories.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Clavin, Tom.
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