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Jeff Guinn - The Last Gunfight (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
The definitive work on the Wild West's greatest and most infamous shootout.
On the afternoon of 26 October 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West.
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, but the truth is even better.
As The Last Gunfight makes clear, the real story of the O.K. Corral and the West is far different from what we've been led to believe by countless Westerns.
Drawing on new material from private collections, including diaries, letters, and Wyatt Earp's own hand-drawn sketch of the shootout's conclusion, as well as documentary research in Tombstone and Arizona archives and dozens of interviews, Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what the West was like.
Details
- Format : Thick 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Non-Fiction - USA
- Published : 2018 (Biteback Publishing
- ISBN : 9781785904455
- SKU : B004118
- PPC : SP400gm
- RRP : £10.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"A terrific read, written in a really engaging way. This was one of the best books I’ve read to give the reader an idea of the authentic American West and what it must have been like." - Neil Tosdevin.
"The genius of this book is that, for all its historical accuracy and sophistication, it still tells a story as stirring as any western." - The Sunday Times.
"A book I've been reading with enormous pleasure." - Simon Hoggart, The Guardian.
"This is what you want from a popular history book. There's lots of detail and lots of context - context, the background to the story, is crucial to books of this kind, I find. The story itself is interesting, and here is clearly described and well paced. There perhaps aren't the kind of illuminating revelations you get in the very best works but those are so rare, it's not really fair to expect them. This is a fine book and an unqualified pleasure." - Bertolt.
The Author
Jeff Guinn is a former award-winning investigative journalist and the bestselling author of numerous books, including Go Down Together: The True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde and Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson. Guinn lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
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