What is in the book
The most famous gunfight in American history did not happen in the O.K. Corral.
On the afternoon of 26 October 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday walked down Fremont Street to disarm a group of Cowboys. They found them in a narrow vacant lot a few doors from the corral's back entrance. About half a minute later, by the newspapers' count, three men were dead or dying, and nobody could agree on who had fired first.
This Turbo History short tells the whole story, from a prospector's silver claim to the town that still re-enacts the fight:
- The boomtown, its two feuding newspapers, and what the word "cowboy" really meant in 1881
- The quarrel in the Alhambra saloon, Wyatt's secret reward deal with Ike Clanton, and a morning of threats and pistol-whippings
- The fight itself, the month-long murder hearing, and the vendetta ride that followed Morgan Earp's murder
- What the rest of the world was doing, from a shot president to the discovery of the germ that was killing Doc Holliday
- The legends: the Buntline Special, "I'm your huckleberry", and how a vacant lot became a corral
Three men died in half a minute. The argument over it has never stopped.
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These are not academic books. You will not find footnotes to chase, family trees to memorise, or ten pages on the logistics of a treaty. Every book ends with a page of proper ones to go to next if you want that depth. If you want the story and the big picture in an hour, you are home.
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