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Title: Tombstone's Epitaph by Douglas D. Martin ISBN: 0-8061-2982-4 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Very enjoyable light reading
Comment: This book is certainly fun to read, but don't get the idea that it will give you a complete history of Tombstone. Those who want that will need to look elsewhere. This book is no more than what its title says it is, perhaps a little less. It is chock full of old Epitaph articles on the more colorful occurrences in Tombstone's history. It was a decidedly partisan newspaper, and regrettably, the reader doesn't get to see the opposing articles from "The Nugget", which was the Epitaph's nemesis during the Earp-Clanton days. The book also ends rather abruptly without any attempt at summation.
Nevertheless, for light reading this book is very entertaining. I recommend it on that basis.
Rating: 4
Summary: A visit to the old west
Comment: Using articles from the pages of Tombstone, Arizona's major newspaper, the Epitaph, and some pieces from a rival paper, author Martin paints a vivid picture of life in this booming mining "camp" as it is referred to. Besides plenty of bordellos and saloons to divert the hardworking miners, the affluent citizens of Tombstone enjoyed concerts, elaborate parties, and social events of various sorts. The exploits of some of the more colorful lawmen and outlaws (sometimes they were one and the same) of the Arizona territory were chronicled in the Epitaph's florid articles, and the much-recounted shootout at the OK corral is detailed (Epitaph writers went into almost clinical detail in describing gunshot wounds). The last part of the book covers a disastrous blaze in one of the mines that shut down mining and the town and then presents a series of exuberantly optimistic articles in which new investors and mining engineers restore mining activity by installing massive pumps to keep groundwater from invading the ore face. However, by 1908, the water had overwhelmed all efforts, and Tombstone camp ceased to produce ore once and for all. The book suffers some from the author's rather awkward writing, but the book is mostly taken directly from the pages of the Epitaph, and his selection of colorful and evocative prose by various Epitaph editors and reporters conveys the life and times of this vibrant community very well.
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Title: Apache Days and Tombstone Nights: John Clum's Autobiography, 1877-1887 by John Philip Clum, Neil B. Carmony ISBN: 0944383416 Publisher: High Lonesome Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp by Glenn G. Boyer ISBN: 0816505837 Publisher: Historical Research Associates Pub. Date: August, 1976 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:Tombstone ASIN: 6304711905 Publisher: Hollywood Pictures Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.39 |
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Title: The Earp Brothers of Tombstone by Frank Waters ISBN: 0803258380 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1976 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Doc Holliday by Jim Myers, John M. Myers ISBN: 0803257813 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.89 |
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