Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph.
At its heart is the woman behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wyatt Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend that would become the epitaph her husband deserved..
Epic and intimate, this Novel gives voice to the real men and women whose lives were changed forever by those fatal thirty seconds in Tombstone.
Epitaph tells Wyatt\'s real story, unearthing the Homeric tragedy buried under 130 years of mythology, misrepresentation, and sheer indifference to fact.
Corral would soon become central to American beliefs about the Old West.
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The lies began before the smoke cleared, but the gunfight at the O.
Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed.
Thirty seconds and thirty bullets later, three officers were wounded and three citizens lay dead in the dirt.
It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest.
All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the Mc Laurys in Tombstone, Arizona.
That was America in 1881. . . .
Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.
Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border.
A president loathed by half the populace.
A shamelessly partisan media.
Vicious politics.
A deeply divided nation.
Corral.
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An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical Novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph
