It was cold on October 26, 1881. They wore black under their greatcoats. They went up Fourth Street and turned left at Fremont. Walking four abreast, they looked beyond the entrance of the O.K. Corral to a vacant lot where the McLaury's and Clanton's were waiting. Walk with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday into this vacant lot where they faced their enemy, close enough to them to touch their gun barrels. History was made here. This was the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Read the word-for-word testimony taken from the court records of the Earp's, Ike Clanton, Doc Holliday and Johnny Behan at the inquest following this legendary gunfight. Hear in their own words how Wyatt, Virgil, and James became legends on the frontiers of the Early West. This is their story as they lived it and told it to newspaper reporters and courts of law. Share their experiences in Tombstone, Dodge City, Abilene, and San Francisco as they speak from the past of many decades ago. Learn of the controversial heavyweight fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey that was refereed by Wyatt in 1896. Wyatt was accused of conspiracy when he awarded the decision to Sharkey on a disputed foul by Fitzsimmons. These firsthand accounts have been annotated with primary source material. Every significant statement made by the Earps is either supported or refuted by the facts and are noted at the ends of each chapter.The story of the Earps needs no fabrication, no untruths to make it exciting-the true story is by far the most exciting version of all.

The Earps Talk (Early West)

History

Americas

Early West

Introduction by Stuart Lake, Preface by Glenn Boyer. Index, biblio, appendices, 50 b/w illustrations and photos. This book contains the complete testimonies of the participants and witnesses given at the Coroner's Inquest. Wyatt Earp testified: "When I saw Billy Clanton and Frank McLaury draw their pistols, I drew my pistol. Billy Clanton leveled his pistol at me, but I did not aim at him... I aimed at Frank McLaury..." Turner used 30 years of research to annotate the transcript. A basic reference on the O. K. Corral fight.

The O.K. Corral Inquest (Early West)

Index, biblio, 42 b/w illustrations, photos, maps. Cal Polk and Louis Bousman rode with Pat Garrett to Stinking Springs in December 1880 in pursuit of the Kid. In their own words, Bousman and Polk tell about the dramatic capture of Billy the Kid. Versions from Charley Siringo, Jim East, Pat Garrett, and newspaper accounts are included for comparison. All accounts are remarkably similar on the major points.

The Capture of Billy the Kid

Politics & Social Sciences

EARLE, JAMES (ed.)

Social Sciences

The Earp Decision (The Early West)

Sports & Outdoors

DeMattos, Jack

Individual Sports

8vo. 224 pp, 25 chapters, index with b&w illustrations throughout. First Printing, 1992. Limited to 1500 Copies. Red cloth with with black to spine, and pictorial endpapers. "Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867-1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West. He likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) after Parker was released from prison around 1896. Together with the other members of "The Wild Bunch`` gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history. After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued, notably by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, forced Longabaugh, his girlfriend Etta Place, and Parker to leave the United States. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were reportedly killed in a shootout in November 1908."

Sundance, My Uncle (The Early West)

Ernst, Donna B.

Children's Books

1st Edition. 320 pp., index, chapter notes, illustrations, diagrams, photographs. Limited to 1000 copies. A fine tight copy in a very good + dust jacket. No other markings or book plates in this copy! From the dust jacket flap, "Compared to John Wesley Hardin, Wyatt, Wild Bill, the Kid, Jesse, Bat, Longley, and all the rest were merely amateurs. Hardin killed his first man in self-defense at age fifteen, several more before he was sixteen, and forty-two in all by the time of his last shootout."

The Last Gunfighter: John Wesley Hardin (The Early West)

Biographies & Memoirs

Marohn, Richard C.

Regional U.S.

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