![]() Corral would soon become central to American beliefs about the Old West.Įpitaph tells Wyatt's real story, unearthing the Homeric tragedy buried under 130 years of mythology, misrepresentation, and sheer indifference to fact. ![]() The lies began before the smoke cleared, but the gunfight at the O.K. Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed. Thirty seconds and thirty bullets later, three officers were wounded and three citizens lay dead in the dirt. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.Īll those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. ![]() Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. A president loathed by half the populace. ![]() ![]() An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. ![]()
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