The last gunfight
Subtitle: the real story of the shootout at the O.K.  Corral and how it changed the American west
By: Jeff Guinn
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781439154243; 9781439157855
Subjects: Outlaws; Violence; Frontier and pioneer life; History
Description: A revisionist history of the Old West battle challenges popular depictions of such figures as the Earps and Doc Holliday, tracing the influence of a love triangle, renegade Apaches, and the citizens of Tombstone.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-374) and index.
Table of contents: title: The West; title: The Earps; title: Tombstone; title: The Earps arrive; title: The coming of the cowboys; title: Doc, Johnny, and Josephine; title: It begins; title: Cochise County sheriff; title: The Benson stage robbery; title: Plans go awry; title: Escalation; title: The night before; title: The gunfight; title: The inquest and the hearing; title: "Blood will surely come"; title: The vendetta ride; title: Legend.