Synopses & Reviews
For the first time ever, the full story of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral—not only what really happened but why, and how mythology has led us to completely misinterpret the real history of the frontier—by the bestselling author of
Go Down Together.
Combining cinematic storytelling with prodigious research, The Last Gunfight upends conventional wisdom about what the West was really like, who the Earps and Doc Holliday really were, and what actually happened in Tombstone on that cold day in October 1881. With brand-new context and masterful presentation, listeners will experience the gunfight in an entirely different—and far more mesmerizing—way.
An addictive hybrid of frontier elegance and decadence, The Last Gunfight has it all—the Old West's most famous characters, a love triangle, cowboy rustlers on the loose, renegade Apaches, and Tombstone itself, far different than the desolate, dusty towns of the movies.
Review
"There are no black and white hats in this gripping revisionist account of the famed 1881 showdown. There are only mixed motives, murky schemes, and misguided hotheads." ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Synopsis
Bestselling author Jeff Guinn presents for the first time the full story of the gunfight at Tombstone's O.K. Corral, one of the Old West's most famous battles
About the Author
Jeff Guinn is the author of Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award in 2010. An award-winning author of both fiction and nonfiction, he is a former books editor and senior writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and has appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation, CNN's Headline News, CBS Sunday Morning, and Fox and Friends. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Stephen Hoye has won thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards and two prestigious APA Audie Awards, including one for the New York Times bestseller Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. A graduate of London's Guildhall and a veteran of London's West End, Stephen has recorded many other notable titles, such as Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong and The Google Story by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed.