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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story Of The Shootout At The O.K. Corral--And How It Changed The American West (2011)

by Jeff Guinn(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439154244 (ISBN13: 9781439154243)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: Bought the audiobook on the cheap from Tantor Media, mostly because I'd always been vaguely curious as to what that had all been about.Overall, a very interesting listen, though the prose itself was a bit florid and tended to descriptors. Possibly the author had read too many Westerns? The treatment of the Apache was also pretty unsympathetic, though they were incidental to the main plot, so that wasn't as aggravating as it could have been.Since I don't really know anything about Tombstone, I couldn't tell if the author was taking sides, but he did seem to want to present all sides, and when the course of events was unclear he presented multiple accounts. He was probably a shade more sympathetic to the Earps than I might have been, but was clear enough about his sources t... morehat one could see where he was coming from.
review 2: 3 ½ starsAfter reading Doc by Mary Doria Russell, I wanted to delve a bit deeper. I only wish I'd read this first, as the "backstory" would have further enhanced my enjoyment of the novel. I enjoyed reading about the development of the frontier mining town of Tombstone and all the economic, political and social factors that played a role. This is well researched with extensive notes on where and how Guinn obtained his research. I really appreciated his explanations of where his source material came from and the problems inherent in many of the contemporary accounts. less

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