The Last Gunfight by Jeff Guinn

The Last Gunfight by Jeff Guinn

A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about--"the most thorough account of the gunfight and its circumstances ever published" (The Wall Street Journal).

On the afternoon of October 26, 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 would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a frontier populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones. It's a colorful story--but the truth is even better.

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 archival research, Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what actually happened that day in Tombstone and why.

Jeff Guinn is the bestselling author of various works of fiction and nonfiction, including Silver City, Buffalo Trail, Glorious, Manson, The Final Gunfight, and Go Down Together: The Real, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, which won the TCU Texas Book Prize in 2016. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, as well as a former books editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and an award-winning investigative journalist. Guinn is a resident of Fort Worth.

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ISBN 13	9781439154250
ISBN 10	1439154252
Title	The Last Gunfight
Author	Jeff Guinn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2012-05-15
Number of pages	416
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