Title: Tombstone : an Iliad of the Southwest /
Authors: Burns, Walter Noble.; University of New Mexico.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Arizona Tombstone; Outlaws Arizona Tombstone History; Tombstone (Ariz.) History; Tombstone (Ariz.) Biography.
Abstract: "Born in 1849, Earp grew up on the Missouri-Kansas frontier and first came to notice as a no-nonsense town marshal in rip-roaring Dodge City, Kansas. Moving to wide-open Tombstone, Arizona, in 1879, he became a businessman and deputy United States marshal and was soon joined by four brothers. In Burns's narrative, the Earp clan represents law and order in the lawless chaotic Old West. These antagonistic forces explode in the bloody and legendary gunfight at the OK Corral between the Earps and the Clanton-McLowery gang. The Earps prevailed, but the subsequent shootings of two Earp brothers drove the calm, courageous, and somewhat emotionless Wyatt to take the law into his own hands. In a personal vendetta, he hunted and killed the treacherous "assassins." Wyatt Earp's most recent biographer, Casey Tefertiller, discusses the influence of Tombstone on the history and legend of Wyatt Earp and the Old West."--Jacket.
Contents: Hills of silver -- Red lights and altar candles -- Glad hand and trigger finger -- Wyatt Earp plays a lone hand -- Curly Bill -- The affair of Skeleton Canon -- Billy Breakenridge makes good -- The old man with a beard -- Ringo -- Russian Bill's little drama -- On the Benson Road -- Flashes of storm -- The show-down -- The red road of vengeance -- The out trail -- John Ringo cashes in -- Buried treasure -- The honeymoon cattle drive -- The roung table's last knight -- Patchy -- Hands up! -- Sunshine and peace.