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(More customer reviews)Having read the orginal version of Helldorado 20 years ago, anticipation of again reading this first hand account of Tombstone days quickly lead to disappoint due to the blatant revisions in this book. For example, the chapter about John Ringo has been completely omitted and substitutions based on author Jack Burrows's derogatory comments from the Gunfighter Who Never Was have been substituted. Orignal photographs have also been omitted. Since William Breakenridge was actually acquainted with the people and times he wrote about, why should a modern revisionist feel compelled to correct his original observations and opinions and thus distort history? If an author has a different viewpoint, then let him/her write their own version, not use the title of another's work.
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1928. With Illustrations. The memoirs of one of the pioneers of the west and the only firsthand account of the vendetta between Wyatt Earp and the Cowboys. Breakenridge was deputy to Sheriff Johnny Behan at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Helldorado is criticized by some in its portrayal of Wyatt as a desperate character.
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