The Last Gun Delight Chapter Summary

The book “The Last GunFight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral- And How It Changed the American West” by Jeff Guinn is a history narrative about how the Earp brothers and Doc Holiday took on the Clanton brothers and changed the way Americans’ in the future perceived what the West was really like. In the book Guinn describes the many events that contributed and lead up to the incident at the O.K. Corral that occurred on October 26, 1881 in Tombstone, Arizona. The story begins by describing for the reader about the town of Tombstone and how it was just like any other mining settlement. Although Tombstone was a mining town, it did not behave like one. Tombstone was a relatively peaceful place that only saw the occasional drunken

In the shootout at the O.K. Corral this exact thing happened. What started out as an arrest that had gone horribly wrong turned into, over the years, a fight of the heroes against the villains. Guinn even quotes the historian John E. Ferling in saying that, “events by themselves are unimportant: it is the perception of events that is crucial” (Guinn for Ferling

I would have to say that I agree with some of the statements that Guinn made, and that I do agree with his conclusion of his book. I also believe that history can be distorted by the public, as Guinn says on the last page of his book, and from my knowledge of the shootout at the O.K. Corral and Wyatt Earp, I would agree with the statement that Guinn made in the last line of his book when he explains how he believes that Wyatt Earp “ would be pleased by the way everything turned out, except for the fact that he [Wyatt] never made any money from