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May 04, 2017 jeff guinn will sign and discuss the road to jonestown simon and schuster. A new york times bestseller, jeff guinns definitive, mythbusting account of the most famous gunfight in american history reveals who wyatt earp, doc holliday, and the clantons and mclaurys really were and what the shootout was all aboutthe most thorough account of the gunfight and its circumstances ever published the wall street journal. The last gunfight book by jeff guinn official publisher page. The true untold story of bonnie and clyde, the last gunfight. A new york times bestseller, jeff guinns definitive, mythbusting account of the most famous gunfight in american history reveals who wyatt earp, doc holliday, and the clantons and mclaurys really were and what the shootout was all aboutthe most thorough account of the gunfight and its circumstances ever published the wall street journalon the afternoon of october 26, 1881, in a. This book launch event was held at the arizona history museum in.
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