![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The gunfight did not actually occur in the O.K. 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, award-winning author Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what the West was like, who the Earps and Doc Holliday and their cowboy adversaries really were, what actually happened on that cold day in Tombstone, and why. Corral and the West is far different from what we've been led to believe by countless TV Westerns and Hollywood films. It's colorful stuffbut the truth is even better.Īs The Last Gunfight makes clear, the real story of the O.K. ![]() Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a West populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones, and where law enforcement largely consisted of sheriffs and outlaws facing off at high noon on the main streets of dusty, desolate towns where every man packed at least one six-shooter on his hips. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West. 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. ![]()
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