Tombstone

The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

De: Tom Clavin

Narrado por: Johnny Heller

The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times best-selling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill.

On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, eight men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in 30 seconds, killing three men and wounding three others.

The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt ranchers. The Mexican government built forts along the border to try to thwart American outlaws, while Arizona citizens became increasingly agitated. Rustlers, who became known as the cow-boys, began to kill each other as well as innocent citizens. That October, tensions boiled over with Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne confronting the Tombstone marshal, Virgil Earp, and the suddenly deputized Wyatt and Morgan Earp and shotgun-toting Doc Holliday.

Best-selling author Tom Clavin peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone to reveal the true story of the drama and violence that made it famous. Tombstone also digs deep into the vendetta ride that followed the tragic gunfight, when Wyatt and Warren Earp and Holliday went vigilante to track down the likes of Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and other cowboys who had cowardly gunned down his brothers. That "vendetta ride" would make the myth of Wyatt Earp complete and punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

“With a former newsman’s nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we will ever get of the old West’s most famous feud." (Associated Press)

©2020 Tom Clavin (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

It's a daisy!

This is an excellent book as a follow up to the Tombstone & Wyatt Earp movies because of all of the background history of all people involved. Cant wait to listen to again and will probably buy the Book to put on the shelf.
Enjoyed it very much.

Great Listen

Narrator and story were fantastic will listen again in the future.Enjoyable in depth on all the characters

A good history of tombstone

The backstory is extensive. The narration seems good... except... I notice that the narrator seems to be unsettled as to how to pronounce certain names/words consistently. For example... John Clum... about half the time, he'll pronounce it "Clum"... the other half, it's 'Cloom'. And often enough, he'll pronounce it both ways, in the same paragraph, or even, within the same sentence!
And it's not just 'Clum'... there are a number of other proper names he does the same thing with.
After a while, it became so noticable, it was a major distraction for me... as well as an irritant.
Still- I like the book.

The true story of the taming of the American West

This well researched book - and in the printed version well footnoted - tells the truth of what happened in Tombstone, from post-civil war politics to an election stolen by ballot box stuffing, to selective law enforcement by one political party, to smash and grabs of business' and merchants' assets, to an outlaws' false defense of "hands up don't shoot" after law enforcement had to defend themselves, to false legal charges and political targeting of people threatening to expose corruption. The same political parties and sides which were involved then are involved now, in the exact same situations. Nothing has really changed much in 140 years of American politics. One side is still lawless, one side still stands for law and order.

interesting

Gave more detail than necessary, but was very interesting. Enjoyed learning more about what happened, however had hoped it had been a little more like the movie, which I thoroughly loved.

Tombstone

I learned a great deal of history with this book. I felt the narrator did an excellent job and filled in many areas I simply did not know.

Outstanding book

I learned so much by this book. I thought I knew a lot about the history of the old west and some of the players but this in-depth book gave me a ton of knowledge . So interesting and kept me going from chapter to chapter!!

Thrilling History!

I just could not put this book down the details and around this historical town and it's people where amazing and a fun ride. As a fan of the movie Tombstone it was also fun to hear how accurate it is and more details and context around that films events. Strongly recommended if you like history, westerns or Tombstone movie!

Educational and Entertaining!

This was a fun history book and the narrator was great! It seemed well-researched.

Review of Tombstone

I really like this one. This is a great period of time. I had a US History teacher that brought this period to life for me. Dr Gary L Roberts was mentioned several times in the book. I believe he was a biographer of Doc Holliday. Really interesting time to me.