SHOWDOWN AT THE O.K. CORRAL: THE TRIAL OF WYATT EARP

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Cases

Territory of Arizona v. Morgan Earp et al., Decision of Judge Wells Spicer after the Preliminary Hearing (Nov. 30, 1881), available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/spicerdecision.html

Law Review Articles

Cohn, Henry S., Book Review, 52 Fed. Law. 60 (2005) (reviewing Steven Lubet, Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (2004))

Lubet, Steven, The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1 (2001)

Swansburg, Was the Quintessential American Lawman Guilty of Manslaughter for His Role in the Gunfight at O.K. Corral?, Legal Affairs 48 (2004), available at http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/November-December-2004/review_swansburg_novdec04.msp

Websites

Prof. Douglas O. Linder, Famous Trials: The O.K. Corral Trial (“Trial of Wyatt Earp”), at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/earphome.html

Biography.com, Wyatt Earp, available at http://www.biography.com/people/wyatt-earp-9283338

Books

Boyer, Glenn G., ed., I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp (1976)

Lubet, Steven, Murder in Tombstone: The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp (2004)

Turner, Alford, ed., The O.K. Corral Inquest (1992)

Miscellaneous

Testimony in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case, Before Judge Wells Spicer, available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/earptestimony.html

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955-1961) (television series starring Hugh O’Brian)

Tombstone Daily Epitaph, Yesterday’s Tragedy: Three Men Hurled Into Eternity in the Duration of a Moment (Oct. 27, 1881), available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/epitaph.html

Tombstone (1993) (movie starring Kurt Russell)

Wyatt Earp (1994) (movie starring Kevin Costner)

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