![]() ![]() 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. It's a colorful story-but the truth is even better. T he most famous gunfight in history actually took place in a vacant lot at the other end of the block from the OK Corral. 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. Just about everybody has heard of the gunfight at the OK Corral. ![]() CorralAnd How It Changed the American West, by Jeff Guinn. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West. Book Review: The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. ![]() Plus, get a FREE ebook when you sign up Books 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. Corral Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Jeff Guinn's The Last Gunfight About The Author Author Alerts Get updates about Jeff Guinn and recommended reads from Simon & Schuster. ![]()
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