Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

by Tom Clavin
Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

by Tom Clavin

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Overview

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." T.J. Stiles, The New York Times

“With a former newsman’s nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we will ever get of the old West’s most famous feud.” —Associated Press

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, eight 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250214591
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/21/2020
Series: Frontier Lawmen
Sold by: Macmillan
Format: eBook
Pages: 448
Sales rank: 53,621
File size: 31 MB
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About the Author

About The Author
TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper and web site editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include The Heart of Everything That Is, Halsey’s Typhoon, and Reckless. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.
TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy—Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone—and Blood and Treasure with Bob Drury. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.

Table of Contents

Author's Note
Prologue

Act I: The Territory

1. "Men of Restless Blood"
2. "Sunlight Into Our Hearts"
3. "I'll Get Every Son of a Bitch"
4. "The Only Stone You'll Ever Find"

Act II: The Brothers

5. "Desperate Characters"
6. "Three Peas in a Pod"
7. "Nobody Much Like Him"
8. "A City Upon a Hill"
9. "You Will Have to Fight Anyway"
10. "And Incredible Beauty"

Act III: The Cowboys

11. "Give Up That Pistol"
12. "Very Lively Town"
13. "Strike Up a Tune"
14. "Dead When He Hit the Ground"
15. "I Hold for Nobody!"
16. "The Fury of the Flames"
17. "Revenge Seems the Order of the Day"

Act IV: The Gunfight

18. "Rather Die Fighting"
19. "Geronimo Is Coming!"
20. "Kill Us or Be Killed"
21. "Right Here, Right Now"
22. "The Fight's Commenced"
23. "It Had Come at Last"

Act V: The Vendetta

24. "It Was a Fight for Life"
25. "A Smoldering Fire"
26. "I'm Your Huckleberry"
27. "A Bad Character Sent to Hell"
28. "A Bloody, Wretched Business"
29. "Armed to the Teeth"

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography

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