| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Book Review

Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp. By Steven Lubet. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. viii + 253 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00.)

Most people are familiar with the basic storyline of the Gunfight at the O. K. Corral. On 26 October 1881 the Earp brothers, with their compatriot, Doc Holliday, squared off against the Clanton and McClaury brothers in an alleyway in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Nobody is sure who fired first, but when the smoke cleared, Billy Clanton and brothers Frank and Tom McClaury lay dead or dying. What is not so well known is that Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were arrested and faced a preliminary hearing for first degree murder. In Murder in Tombstone, Steven Lubet, a professor of law at Northwestern University, dissects the legal proceedings of the preliminary hearing to provide a fresh look at one of the American West's most enduring events.

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