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The gunfight at the OK Corral occupies a unique place in American history. Although the event itself lasted less than a minute, it became the basis for countless stories about the Wild West. At the time of the gunfight, however, Wyatt Earp was not universally acclaimed as a hero. Among the people who knew him best in Tombstone, Arizona, many considered him a renegade and murderer.
This book tells the nearly unknown story of the prosecution of Wyatt Earp, his brothers, and Doc Holiday following the famous gunfight. To the prosecutors, the Earps and Holiday were wanton killers. According to the defense, the Earps were steadfast heroes—willing to risk their lives on the mean streets of Tombstone for the sake of order.
The case against the Earps, with its dueling narratives of brutality and justification, played out themes of betrayal, revenge, and even adultery. Attorney Thomas Fitch, one of the era’s finest advocates, ultimately managed—against considerable odds—to save Earp from the gallows. But the case could easily have ended in a conviction, and Wyatt Earp would have been hanged or imprisoned, not celebrated as an American icon.
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Trials, litigation, Trials (Murder), Frontier and pioneer life, Violence, Outlaws, Peace officers, Biography, History, Earp, wyatt, 1848-1929, Trials (murder), Frontier and pioneer life, arizona, Tombstone (ariz.), Arizona, history, Arizona, biographyPeople
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Arizona, Tombstone, Tombstone (Ariz.)Times
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Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
2010, Yale University Press
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1281729566 9781281729569
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Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
2008, Yale University Press
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0300129246 9780300129243
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Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (The Lamar Series in Western History)
March 28, 2006, Yale University Press
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030011527X 9780300115277
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Murder in tombstone: the forgotten trial of Wyatt Earp
2004, Yale University Press
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030010426X 9780300104264
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