Tombstone : An Iliad of the Southwest (Historians of the Frontier and American West Series)

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First published in 1927, Tombstone defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mix of fact and fiction, Walter Noble Burns’s portrayal of Earp has profoundly influenced subsequent generations of historians, novelists, and screen writers. Born in 1849, Earp grew up at the Missouri-Kansas frontier and first came to note as a no-nonsense town marshal in rip-roaring Dodge City, Kansas. Moving to wide-open Tombstone, Arizona in 1879, he changed into a businessman and deputy United States marshal where he used to be soon joined by his four brothers. In Burns’s narrative, the Earp clan represents law and order within the lawless, chaotic Old West. The collision between civilization and frontier explodes within the bloody and legendary shootout at the OK Corral between the Earps and the Clanton-McLowery gang. The Earps prevailed, however the subsequent shootings of two Earp brothers drove the calm, courageous, and quite emotionless Wyatt to take the law into his own hands. In a personal rage, he hunted and killed the treacherous “assassins.” Wyatt Earp’s most latest biographer, Casey Tefertiller, discusses the influence of Tombstone at the history and legend of Wyatt Earp and the Old West.

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