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The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona : an O.K. Corral obituary /
On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona, by the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. The deadly event became known as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and in a quirk of fate, the brothers' names became well...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton, Tex. :
University of North Texas Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | A.C. Greene series ;
12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Fame from the barrel of a gun
- The clan McClaughry
- The McLaurys in Iowa
- War and the failed marriage
- William R. McLaury
- Buchanan County, Iowa
- The McLaury brothers in Arizona
- Will McLaury, attorney-at-law
- The Arizona frontier
- "My name is well known in Arizona"
- Border crime
- Politics of Arizona and Tombstone
- "More havoc than Apaches"
- The vexed question
- "The grave situation on the border"
- Vengeful schemes
- Summer storms
- Loss in Fort Worth
- Deadly ambush
- "Glad you are on the alert"
- Open hostilities
- Indian summer
- "Throw up your hands"
- "Hurled into eternity"
- A charge of murder
- "This don't bring back my dead brothers
- "The cause of the murder was this"
- "I do not like your letter"
- "And tales of broken faith"
- "I knew they were all down on you"
- Habeas corpus
- "They would shoot a fellow to see him fall"
- "None of the results is satisfactory"
- Epilogue: Three McLaury brothers.