It felt time to finally learn the truth about the earps, the cowboys, tombstone, and the famous shootout at the ok corral. Two area ranchers, known as cochise county cowboys arrived in tombstone around lunchtime. The author cuts through the myth to tell the reader how wild the west really was. It gives all the facts of events leading up to the shootout and afterwards, and also gives a lot of the history of the arizona territory. I decided to read this book after watching hour of the gun. Published on oct 26, 2019 a detailed accounting of the wednesday october 26th 1881 gunfight at the o. Corral, dubs itself americas second amendment city.
If you only want to read one book on gunfight at the ok corral this is the best. A brief history on october 26, 1881, tombstone, arizona saw the earp brothers and doc holliday faced off with the clantons and the cowboys in perhaps the most famous gunfight in us history, the gunfight at the o. He provides a richly researched history, written in a welcoming prose style that was easy to read. I have read most books on the ok corral, and this one does not disappoint. It is written in a very entertaining way and is not at all a dry read. It is generally regarded as the most famous shootout in the history of the american wild west. Will mclaury came to tombstone after the gun fight and joined the prosecution team in an attempt to convict the earps and holliday. Original ok corral document found during us court springclean a missing handwritten transcript from a coroners inquest done after the legendary gunfight at the ok corral.
Ok corral inquest transcript found in arizona jailhouse store room the real story of the gunfight at the ok corral, which shaped the mythology of. Supposedly drawn up with a former mayor of tombstone, the other manuscript goes through her life in the town and includes the ok corral gunfight. The book was extremely successful and elevated earp to almost mythic. The immediate prelude to the gunfight at the ok corral began the day before, on october the 25th. Although his sixyear career as a lawman in dodge city and tombstone was an eventful one, wyatt earp is remembered primarily today as the victor of the 1881 gunfight at the o. Thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in tombstone. He told me to pull out my gun and if there was any grit in me, to go to fighting. Its mostly symbolic a recognition of the towns history and its citizens. Ok corral inquest transcript found in jailhouse telegraph. New books claim ok corral gunfight not a case of good v evil. Corral was a 30second shootout between lawmen and members of a. The location of the gun battle was incorrectly identified as the ok corral in early books and films, and the shootout became known by that name. Article by allen barra, author of book inventing wyatt earp, discusses enduring legend of gunfight at ok corral, why it captured american imagination, and what really happened there.
Corral which took place in tombstone, arizona territory. The wild west s1 e3 the gunfight at the ok corral the wild west. Corral is a term used to refer to an infamous shootout in the american west during the late 1800s between some historical icons. The ok corral gunfight events october 26, 1881 summary preceding gunfight events. Despite these brushedup portraits of wyatt earp and john henry doc holliday, new books on the ok corral gunfight show that there was very little heroic about them apart from their. Explore articles from the history net archives about o. New books claim ok corral gunfight not a case of good v evil and. The fighting was over in less than a minute, and when the gun smoke cleared, three. New books claim ok corral gunfight not a case of good v evil and wyatt earp was as bad as his victims by daily mail reporter updated. Corral was a 30second shootout between lawmen and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the cowboys that took place at about 3. The gunfight at the ok corral western mining history. Corral lasted only 30 seconds but became the most infamous story of the wild west.
Digging deeper this notorious shootout has been the subject of numerous major motion pictures as wellread more. Corral, as it later became known, in many ways marked the end of the age of frontier justice, and it would not be long before tombstones great era came to an end. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old west. Its been immortalized in over 40 feature films and written about in 1,000 books. The last gunfight and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle.
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