And Die in the West Story of the O.K.Corral Gunfight

Name: And Die in the West
Author: Paula Mitchell Marks

Auteur: Paula Mitchell Marks

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Paula Mitchell Marks

Uitgever: University Of Oklahoma Press

Engels
Paperback
9780806128887
Druk: 1
september 1996
480 pagina's

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The gunfight at the O.K. Corral has excited the imaginations of Western enthusiasts ever since that chilly October afternoon in 1881 when Doc Holliday and the three fighting Earps strode along a Tombstone, Arizona, street to confront the Clanton and McLaury brothers. When they met, Billy Clanton and the two McLaurys were shot to death; the popular image of the Wild West was reinforced; and fuel was provided for countless arguments over the characters, motives, and actions of those involved.

And Die in the West presents the first fully detailed, objective narrative of the celebrated gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and the bitter, bloody events that followed. Paula Mitchell Marks places the events surrounding the gunfight against a larger backdrop of a booming Tombstone and the fluid, frontier environment of greed, factions and violence. In the process, Marks strips away many of the myths associated with the famous gunfight and of the West in general.

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