And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral GunfightUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1996 - 480 pages "And Die in the West" presents the first fully detailed, objective narrative of the celebrated gunfight, of the tensions leading up to it, and of the bitter, bloody events that followed. Paula Mitchell Marks places the events surrouding the gunfight against a larger backdrop of a booming tombstone and the fluid, frontier enviroment of greed, factions and violence. In the process, Marks stips away many of the myths associated with the famous gunfight and of the West in general. |
Contents
Trails to Tombstone | 17 |
A Big Camp This with a Big Future | 41 |
The Shootists | 66 |
A Pretty Hard Reputation | 90 |
Games of Chance | 112 |
A Most Terrible Affair | 135 |
Fire Flood and Friction | 155 |
Let the Ball Open | 194 |
Except by Continuous Bloodshed | 301 |
We Didnt Get Out When the Gettin | 321 |
Trail of Blood | 342 |
Men on the Run | 366 |
And Die in the West | 392 |
It Must Be a Nice Clean Story | 415 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 461 |
To Save Themselves from Certain Death | 277 |
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