![]() ![]() These attributes made him trusted and respected. The true hero of this book is Virgil Earp, who was cool, competent and congenial. Readers will come away with a better understanding of Tombstone’s short but lively history than from most of the excellent books written in recent years, and without the overwrought melodrama of the historically flawed books on which the movies and television shows of yesteryear were based. He has provided us a page-turner that manages to explain complicated economic, political and social issues, then ties them to the ambitions and fears of all the actors in this drama. ![]() Whether readers are persuaded by Guinn’s reconstruction of the era, they will have to agree that he is a gifted writer. It’s not a start that gives one much confidence in what follows, but those pages are misleading - apparently he did not think that the Monmouth years could tell a reader anything significant, and therefore did no research beyond a few questions in his interviews with Tombstone scholars clearly, his interest in those conversations was in background to the gunfight. To be sure, the two pages he gives to Nicholas Earp in Monmouth do not repeat the outworn myths of the past based on Stuart Lake’s “Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal.” Instead, he creates new ones. Corral - And How It Changed the American West.” That’s a big promise, with the word “Real” suggesting that everyone who has written about this in the past somehow got it wrong. ![]() This 2011 book by Jeff Guinn is subtitled, “The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. ![]()
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