**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.
