Epic and intimate, this novel gives voice to the real men and women whose lives were changed forever by those fatal thirty seconds in Tombstone.

... epitaphs upon soldiers and other victims of war are , not surprisingly , the most common twentieth - century form of the serious epitaph . Such poetic epitaphs reveal , however , the prob- lematic status of the genre in this century ...

Child of the Chicago slums fights the drug habit.

2097 is a transformed world.

A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor" (Library Journal).

The news stories collected in this book are on-the-spot accounts & running news bulletins (including verbatim testimony) of the trial that followed the most famous gunfight in western history. "A Southwestern classic."--LOS ANGELES TIMES.