He has provided us a page-turner that manages to explain complicated economic, political and social issues, then ties them to the ambitions and fears of all the actors in this drama. Whether readers are persuaded by Guinn’s reconstruction of the era, they will have to agree that he is a gifted writer.
It’s not a start that gives one much confidence in what follows, but those pages are misleading - apparently he did not think that the Monmouth years could tell a reader anything significant, and therefore did no research beyond a few questions in his interviews with Tombstone scholars clearly, his interest in those conversations was in background to the gunfight.
To be sure, the two pages he gives to Nicholas Earp in Monmouth do not repeat the outworn myths of the past based on Stuart Lake’s “Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal.” Instead, he creates new ones. Corral - And How It Changed the American West.” That’s a big promise, with the word “Real” suggesting that everyone who has written about this in the past somehow got it wrong. It’s a colorful story-but the truth is even better.ĭrawing on new material from private collections-including diaries, letters, and Wyatt Earp’s own hand-drawn sketch of the shootout’s conclusion-as well as archival research, Jeff Guinn gives us a startlingly different and far more fascinating picture of what actually happened that day in Tombstone and why.This 2011 book by Jeff Guinn is subtitled, “The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a frontier populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones. Corral would shape how future generations came to view the Old West.
On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about-“the most thorough account of the gunfight and its circumstances ever published” ( The Wall Street Journal)
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