Tombstone
Subtitle: an Iliad of the Southwest
By: Walter Noble Burns.
Contributors: University of New Mexico. Center for the American West.
Series: Historians of the frontier and American West
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albuquerque, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona -- Tombstone.; Outlaws -- Arizona -- Tombstone -- History -- 19th century.; Tombstone (Ariz.) -- History -- 19th century.; Tombstone (Ariz.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the American West."