The Cowboy Conspiracy To Convict The Earps.

MICHAEL M. HICKEY

Publication: Talei Publishers, Inc, 1994, Honolulu

First edition. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers with french folds, (16), 151 pp., acknowledgments., foreword, illustrated, bibliography. An interesting book that presents the fight at the O.K. Corral with a chronology of events that include the eyewitness testimony, a time and motion study, the way the event took place, the conspiracy to convict the Earps, Tom McLaury's actions during the street fight, and and the aftermath of violence and legal conflict between lawmen and Cowboy factions, including threats, ambushes, and what became known as the Earp Vendetta Ride. Additionally are sketches of Camillus S. Fly, the Tombstone photographer, a tribute to Wyatt Earp by Stuart N. Lake and Glenn G. Boyer, 26 questions with the author about the street fight, and an interesting selective bibliography. Fine copy.