Tombstones

Tombstones
Title Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Lederman
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 342
Release 1992-03-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780374278458

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In Wall Street lingo, tombstones are the black-bordered newspaper notices of corporate mergers. Lederman, who created the recapitalization technique while a partner at Wachtell Lipton, presents richly detailed stories from the takeover wars of the 1980's, informed by his intimate knowledge of the strategies and personalities involved.

Walk Among the Tombstones

Walk Among the Tombstones
Title Walk Among the Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Lawrence Block
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 388
Release 2009-03-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0061760315

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Tombstone

Tombstone
Title Tombstone PDF eBook
Author Tom Clavin
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Pages 257
Release 2020-04-21
Genre History
ISBN 1250214599

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THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Tombstone is written in a distinctly American voice." —T.J. Stiles, The New York Times “With a former newsman’s nose for the truth, Clavin has sifted the facts, myths, and lies to produce what might be as accurate an account as we will ever get of the old West’s most famous feud.” —Associated Press The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, eight men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers had been terrorizing the back country of Mexico and selling the livestock they stole to corrupt ranchers. The Mexican government built forts along the border to try to thwart American outlaws, while Arizona citizens became increasingly agitated. Rustlers, who became known as the cow-boys, began to kill each other as well as innocent citizens. That October, tensions boiled over with Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Claiborne confronting the Tombstone marshal, Virgil Earp, and the suddenly deputized Wyatt and Morgan Earp and shotgun-toting Doc Holliday. Bestselling author Tom Clavin peers behind decades of legend surrounding the story of Tombstone to reveal the true story of the drama and violence that made it famous. Tombstone also digs deep into the vendetta ride that followed the tragic gunfight, when Wyatt and Warren Earp and Holliday went vigilante to track down the likes of Johnny Ringo, Curly Bill Brocius, and other cowboys who had cowardly gunned down his brothers. That "vendetta ride" would make the myth of Wyatt Earp complete and punctuate the struggle for power in the American frontier's last boom town.

Tombstone

Tombstone
Title Tombstone PDF eBook
Author Yang Jisheng
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 658
Release 2012-10-30
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0374277931

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An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones
Title New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Richard F. Veit
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 345
Release 2008-09-17
Genre History
ISBN 0813545668

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From the earliest memorials used by Native Americans to the elaborate structures of the present day, Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied use grave markers to take an off-beat look at New Jersey’s history that is both fascinating and unique. New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey’s historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived. The evidence ranges from somber seventeenth-century decorations such as hourglasses and skulls that denoted the brevity of colonial life, to modern times where memorials, such as a life-size granite Mercedes Benz, reflect the materialism of the new millennium. Also considered are contemporary novelties such as pet cemeteries and what they reveal about today’s culture. To tell their story the authors visited more than 1,000 burial grounds and interviewed numerous monument dealers and cemetarians. This richly illustrated book is essential reading for history buffs and indeed anyone who has ever wandered inquisitively through their local cemeteries.

No Time for Tombstones

No Time for Tombstones
Title No Time for Tombstones PDF eBook
Author James C. Hefley
Publisher
Pages 156
Release 1974
Genre Religion
ISBN

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Tales Behind the Tombstones

Tales Behind the Tombstones
Title Tales Behind the Tombstones PDF eBook
Author Chris Enss
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 225
Release 2007-07-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 076275186X

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Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen. Readers will learn the story behind Calamity Jane's wish to be buried next to Wild Bill Hickok, discover how and where the Earp brothers came to be buried, and visit the sites of tombs long forgotten while legends have lived on.