The cover page is adapted from An Argument with the Sheriff, a painting completed before 1913 by William Robinson Leigh. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Robinson_Leighwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Tombstone
Chapters (24)
- Dedication 0:00
- Sources 0:04
- I: Hills of Silver 3:41
- II: Red Lights and Altar Candles 50:25
- III: Glad Hand and Trigger Finger 1:24:47
- IV: Wyatt Earp Plays a Lone Hand 1:59:11
- V: Curly Bill 2:20:31
- VI: The Affair of Skeleton Canyon 2:57:34
- VII: Billy Breakenridge Makes Good 3:20:35
- VIII: The Old Man with a Beard 3:47:07
- IX: Ringo 4:07:40
- X: Russian Bill’s Little Drama 4:29:28
- XI: On the Benson Road 5:03:58
- XII: Flashes of Storm 5:28:32
- XIII: The Showdown 6:04:22
- XIV: The Red Road of Vengeance 6:38:50
- XV: The Out Trail 7:16:58
- XVI: John Ringo Cashes In 7:53:42
- XVII: Buried Treasure 8:26:51
- XVIII: The Honeymoon Cattle Drive 8:56:08
- XIX: The Round Table’s Last Knight 9:36:20
- XX: Patchy 10:22:49
- XXI: Hands Up! 10:55:41
- XXII: Sunshine and Peace 11:27:16
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The second of three books by Walter Noble Burns covering the post-Civil War American West, Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest, first published in 1927, is one of the earliest popular semi-fictional histories of some of the West’s most famous lawmen and outlaws. Wyatt Earp (the “Lion of Tombstone”), his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and their friend Doc Holliday face off against rustlers and outlaws like Curly Bill, Billy and Ike Clanton, Frank and Tom McLaury, and Johnny Ringo, culminating in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Throughout the narrative, Burns draws the reader into the life of the boomtown, from founding, to meteoric rise, and final collapse, with a focus on the personalities, conflicts, and myths that have cemented the town and its characters as a fixture in many aspects of American popular culture, including books, comics, radio dramas, films, and television. Burns’ Tombstone is the iconic frontier town of “The Old West.”