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The events leading up to the gunfight at the O. K. Corral and the resulting Earp Vendetta Ride are bits of Arizona Territory history that have grown to the status of legend in the United States. The events of the early 1880s have been debated vigorously by partisans and historians on both sides of the conflict. What history can’t document has been filled in by the imagination of journalists, filmmakers and novelists ever since. Novelist Parker portrays it as the result of the rivalry between actress Josie Marcus’s former lover, sheriff Johnny Behan, and her next partner, federal marshal Wyatt Earp. Parker tells it in short vivid scenes filled with terse dialog that’s true to Earp’s notoriously taciturn manner. Other historical causes, Republicans v. Democrats, town businessmen v. ranchers, law enforcement v. cattle rustlers, and gun control law show up only on rare occasions in the dialog. By doing so, Parker fulfills the title’s promise; this is primarily a story about gunfighters.
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