Wyatt Earp A Biography of the Legend: Tombstone Before the Earps, volume II, part 1

by Lee A. Silva and Susan Leiser Silva

 Introduction by Robert G. McCubbin.

First Edition. First Printing March 2010.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Brand New Condition! Retails for $69.95 plus shipping.

The story of Tombstone, Arizona Territory told with over 350 photos and maps. This text creates a picture of the early history of Tombstone and why there was so much lawlessness there, painting a background of Tombstone and its era that previous histories have overlooked.

 Silva's text tells the story of why Tombstone was unique in so many ways other than just its name, and how it became both a cattle boomtown and a silver boomtown that attracted twice as many "bad guys" to it as others might have. Here, for the first time, is a story of all the peripheral, mitigating factors that led up to the friction between the lawless factions and the law enforcement factions of Tombstone, which would culminate in the most famous gunfight of the Old West (The gunfight at the O.K. Corral), the ambush shooting of Virgil Earp, the assassination of Morgan Earp, and Wyatt Earp's subsequent bloody vendetta.

Graphic Publishers, 2010.