Published by William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1989
Seller: K & B Books, Tucson, AZ, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 480 pp., index, bibliography, endnotes, maps, photographs. A fine tight copy with previous owner's name written on first fly leaf, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. An excellent well written and researched book! The author places the gunfight narrative into a larger context, showing that the story of the shoot-out is also the story of booming Tombstone. EXTRA; Laid in is a copy photograph of Tombstone Marshal Fred White and a Tombstone map by John D. Gilchriese. The second book, The McLaurys in Tombstone, University of North Texas Press, 2012. 380 pp., acknowledgments, prologue, illustrations, photographs, maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. In October, 1881, Frank and Tom McLaury were gunned down on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona, by the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday. The brothers have since been known as outlaws and badmen. Did they truly deserve that reputation? These two books together tell the dramatic story of that silver boom town.