Título: Tombstone (Frontier Lawmen)
Autor: Tom Clavin
Sinopse: THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." ―T.J. Stiles, The New York Times
“With a former newsman’s nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we will ever get of the old West’s most famous feud.” ―Associated Press
The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill.
On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, eight men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others.
The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt ranchers. The Mexican government built forts along the border to try to thwart American outlaws, while Arizona citizens became increasingly agitated. Rustlers, who became known as the cow-boys, began to kill each other as well as innocent citizens. That October, tensions boiled over with Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne confronting the Tombstone marshal, Virgil Earp, and the suddenly deputized Wyatt and Morgan Earp and shotgun-toting Doc Holliday.
Bestselling author Tom Clavin peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone to reveal the true story of the drama and violence that made it famous. Tombstone also digs deep into the vendetta ride that followed the tragic gunfight, when Wyatt and Warren Earp and Holliday went vigilante to track down the likes of Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and other cowboys who had cowardly gunned down his brothers. That "vendetta ride" would make the myth of Wyatt Earp complete and punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Tombstone (Frontier Lawmen)”, de Tom Clavin, publicado pela editora Griffin, em 2021 e com 416 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Griffin
Páginas: 416
Ano: 2021-01-05
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1250214602
ISBN13: 9781250214607
Sobre a editora
O catálogo da Griffin reúne livros que transitam entre narrativas de forte apelo emocional e obras que exploram temas atuais com tom crítico e direto. Os livros da editora Griffin trazem desde relatos pessoais e histórias de superação até análises contundentes sobre questões sociais e culturais, frequentemente abordando conflitos internos e externos, como desafios pessoais, tensões políticas e dilemas éticos. A experiência de leitura varia entre textos mais densos e reflexivos e outros com ritmo ágil, que mesclam suspense, romance e até humor, criando um contraste que permite ao leitor navegar por diferentes atmosferas e estilos dentro do mesmo universo editorial.
