Fr. 25.80

They Called Them the Fightin' Earps

English · Paperback / Softback

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Wyatt Earp and his brothers came to Tombstone to invest in recently opened silver mines and real estate, to get a share of newly discovered wealth and prosperity, and not to continue their law enforcement career. However, they soon realized that on one hand they cannot for long ignore the lawlessness of the town and the surrounding county, and on the other, the presence of the former lawmen did not escape the attention of the local administration and security people of the Wells Fargo Company. Once these people managed to convince Wyatt and his brother Virgil to return to law-maintaining activity, the conflict with the so-called "cowboy gang" was just a matter of time. It not only culminated in the shoot-out at O.K. Corral but once Virgil got shot in ambush a seriously wounded and the second brother Morgan killed while playing pool, it eventually led to the destruction of the afore mention gang and killing its leaders, namely William Brocious, known as "Curly" Bill and John Peters Ringgold known as Ringo.

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Jiri Cernik was born in Jicin, Czechoslovakia and immigrated to the United States in 1967 where he earned an MA in German language and literature at George Washington University. He has worked at the Foreign Service Institute, Educational Bureau of the U.S. Department of State as the Language Training Supervisor of Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Greek sections. In addition to his work in the field of linguistics and language pedagogy he has pursued his interest in American history, particularly the settlement of the American West. He has traveled extensively throughout all states west of the Mississippi and is the author of several novels, stories and non-fiction works dealing with this area and people who settled it. Two, published in the Czech Republic, are "The Wild West" and "With a Tomahawk Against the Muskets," a two-volume detailed history of the Indian Wars covering the time period 1621-1890. He is retired and lives with his wife in Needmore, Pennsylvania where for many years they have raised and showed Morgan horses.

Product details

Authors Jiri Cernik
Publisher PTP Book Division
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.05.2023
 
EAN 9781088098356
ISBN 978-1-08-809835-6
No. of pages 366
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
Weight 530 g
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918

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