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Doc Holliday

Gary L. Roberts
Doc Holliday Book PDF

Author : Gary L. Roberts
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781118130971

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Doc Holliday by Gary L. Roberts Pdf

Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They deserve serious study simply because they have continued to grip the public imagination. Such was Doc Holliday, and Gary Roberts has produced a model for looking at both the life and the legend of these frontier immortals." --Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "Doc Holliday emerges from the shadows for the first time in this important work of Western biography. Gary L. Roberts has put flesh and soul to the man who has long been one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history. This is both an important work and a wonderful read." --Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend "Gary Roberts is one of a foremost class of writers who has created a real literature and authentic history of the so-called Western. His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Corral and into the glare of history." --Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was "Gary L. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. Family members knew him as John. Somewhere in between the two lies the real John Henry Holliday. Roberts reflects this concept in his writing. This book should be of interest to Holliday devotees as well as newly found readers." --Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays

Doc Holliday

Matt Braun
Doc Holliday Book PDF

Author : Matt Braun
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466816091

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Doc Holliday by Matt Braun Pdf

Doc Holiday Matt Braun He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. But as Dr. John H. Holliday, a man fleeing his tragic past, drifted across the West, living among some of the roughest men on the frontier, word spread quickly he never walked away from a fight, and he never drew too late. Now, from Dodge City to Denver and Cheyenne, from boomtown to sinkholes, "Doc" Holliday was driven by the demons of his past, a skilled gambler and a seasoned mankiller--his name was known and feared long before the O.K. Corral. The story of a man who spoke softly and carried a lightning gun, Doc Holliday is Matt Braun's extraordinary chronicle of the West's most complex and legendary figure.

The World of Doc Holliday

Victoria Wilcox
The World of Doc Holliday Book PDF

Author : Victoria Wilcox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493048298

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The World of Doc Holliday by Victoria Wilcox Pdf

His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp, and he is probably most famous for his time in Tombstone. But Doc Holliday’s story is a much richer than that one sentence summary allows. His was a life of travel across the west—from Georgia to Texas, from Dodge City to Las Vegas, across Arizona and from New Mexico to Colorado and Montana. Revealed from contemporary newspaper accounts and records of interviews with Doc himself and the people who knew him and packed with archival photos and illustrations, The World of Doc Holliday offers a real first-hand accounting of his life of adventure.

Tombstone

Tom Clavin
Tombstone Book PDF

Author : Tom Clavin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250214591

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Tombstone by Tom Clavin Pdf

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.

Doc Holliday

Karen Holliday Tanner
Doc Holliday Book PDF

Author : Karen Holliday Tanner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806187303

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Doc Holliday by Karen Holliday Tanner Pdf

John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday’s early years, in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west. The influence of Holliday’s genteel upbringing never disappeared, but it was increasingly overshadowed by his emerging western personality. Holliday himself nurtured his image as a frontier gambler and gunman. Using previously undisclosed family documents and reminiscences as well as other primary sources, Tanner documents the true story of Doc’s friendship with the Earp brothers and his run-ins with the law, including the climactic shootout at the O. K. Corral and its aftermath. This first authoritative biography of Doc Holliday should appeal both to historians of the West and to general readers who are interested in his poignant story.

Doc Holliday's Woman

Jane Candia Coleman
Doc Holliday s Woman Book PDF

Author : Jane Candia Coleman
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Doc Holliday's Woman by Jane Candia Coleman Pdf

A novel based on the life of Kate Elder, a courageous, independent woman who survived alone on the frontier, from St. Louis to the OK Corral, and eventually became Doc Holliday's mistress. The author has drawn on sources such as interviews with Kate Elder herself in the 1930s and other accounts and memoirs to build a vision of the Wild West that is at once accurate, and compelling.

Doc Holliday

Karen Holliday Tanner
Doc Holliday Book PDF

Author : Karen Holliday Tanner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806172163

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Doc Holliday by Karen Holliday Tanner Pdf

John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday’s early years, in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west. The influence of Holliday’s genteel upbringing never disappeared, but it was increasingly overshadowed by his emerging western personality. Holliday himself nurtured his image as a frontier gambler and gunman. Using previously undisclosed family documents and reminiscences as well as other primary sources, Tanner documents the true story of Doc’s friendship with the Earp brothers and his run-ins with the law, including the climactic shootout at the O. K. Corral and its aftermath. This first authoritative biography of Doc Holliday should appeal both to historians of the West and to general readers who are interested in his poignant story. "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait will be considered the definitive Holliday biography and will supplant all previously published works on the man’s life as a complete and authoritative account. This book will undoubtedly take a place among the foremost books in the Western gunfighter genre." - Robert K. DeArment, author of Alias Frank Canton

They Call Me Doc

D. J. Herda
They Call Me Doc Book PDF

Author : D. J. Herda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762774517

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They Call Me Doc by D. J. Herda Pdf

A fresh, lively retelling of the life of one of the most infamous characters of the Old West, Doc Holliday, by an imaginative, yet accurate storyteller.

Doc Holliday

John Myers Myers
Doc Holliday Book PDF

Author : John Myers Myers
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1955-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803257813

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Doc Holliday by John Myers Myers Pdf

A biography of the well-known Old West gambler and gunfighter, Doc Holliday.

Southern Son

Victoria Wilcox
Southern Son Book PDF

Author : Victoria Wilcox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493044702

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Southern Son by Victoria Wilcox Pdf

You’ve heard Doc Holliday’s history, but do you know his story? His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with Wyatt Earp, but before Doc Holliday was a Western legend, he was a Southern Son. The story begins in Civil War Georgia, as young John Henry Holliday welcomes home his heroic father and learns a terrible secret about his mother, with his only confidant his favorite cousin Mattie. As the Confederacy falls and tragedy strikes, John Henry’s hero-worship turns to bitter anger and he joins with a gang of vigilantes to chase the Reconstruction Yankees out of their small Georgia town. When their murderous plot is discovered and brings threats of military prison, he vows to change his reckless ways, leaving home to attend dental school in Philadelphia and hoping to become a respected professional man worthy of asking for his cousin Mattie’s hand. But when he returns from two years in the North he finds family intrigues, lies and revelations, rivals for Mattie’s affections—and a violent encounter that changes everything and starts him on the road to Western legend. Southern Son is the first book in the award-winning Saga of Doc Holliday, an epic American tale of heroes and villains, dreams lost and found, families broken and reconciled, of sin and recompense and the redeeming power of love.

Doc Holliday in Film and Literature

Shirley Ayn Linder
Doc Holliday in Film and Literature Book PDF

Author : Shirley Ayn Linder
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786473359

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Doc Holliday in Film and Literature by Shirley Ayn Linder Pdf

The legend of Doc Holliday is now well past a century old. While his time on earth was brief, troubled and filled with pain, his legend took wings and flew. Beginning with his part in the now famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Denver newspapers first told his story in the late 19th century. They, followed by words of Wyatt Earp, grasped the glimmer of his tale. So enamored was the public that by 1939 he was a literary icon and his character had appeared in eight films. Historians, authors, screenwriters and eventually television refined the legend, which reached its apex perhaps with the 1993 film Tombstone. Doc Holliday's image has neither dimmed nor wavered in the 21st century. Broadway, country music and art join with literature and film to continue his mystique as the personification of a surviving legend of the U.S. West.

"Doc" Holliday's Life

Jen Burlock
Doc Holliday s Life Book PDF

Author : Jen Burlock
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783736811515

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"Doc" Holliday's Life by Jen Burlock Pdf

Have you ever wanted to know about someone from history, mainly Western life? This is a story about an iconic figure who was a part of the wild west, but very little was known about. Most think of this man as a ruthless gunfighter, yet he was much more and very knowledgeable.

Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone

Tom Barnes
Doc Holliday s Road to Tombstone Book PDF

Author : Tom Barnes
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781450045711

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Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone by Tom Barnes Pdf

John Henry Holliday steps off the train at Atlantas Union Station, fresh out of the Pennsylvania Dental College, and into Matties arms. But the storybook romance between the young dentist and his cousin is cut short by disease and family strife. Some close relatives are grousing at the couple to break off their relationship, but they are unwilling to bow to family pressures. However his financial reverses and physical health conspire to make that happen. John Henry is diagnosed with tuberculosis and doctors suggest a dryer climate in the West. Mattie pleads to go with him but John Henry says no and travels to Dallas alone. The dry climate stabilizes his condition, but he is unable to make a living from his dental practice. Dispirited and alone he is eventually attracted to saloon life where he takes a new name and calling -- Doc Holliday -- frontier gambler. Kate Elder, a spunky little saloon girl, sets her sights on Doc. And when trouble comes at Ft. Griffin and a noose is about to be tied around Docs neck Kate executes a daring escape plan and the two ride north, through Indian territory, to Dodge City, Kansas. Doc sets up a dental practice in the cattle town and becomes acquainted with the likes of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short and Eddie Foy. When a wild bunch of drunken cowboys corner Wyatt Earp Doc hurries to his rescue with a 38 in one hand and a 44 in the other. That moment was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Wyatt Earp would never forget that day at Dodge City when Doc Holliday using courage and grit saved his life. Docs tenuous relationship with Kate dragged along simply because he was beholden to her for saving him from the hangmans noose at Ft. Griffin. Their tumultuous relationship continued though as they follow the migration of the Dodge City crowd south to Tombstone, Arizona. A corrupt political ring backs the cowboy-outlaw faction with the complicity of the Cochise County Sheriff. Doc has friends in both camps, but joins Wyatt and his brothers on the side of law and order, where his courage and loyalty are once again tested, when he stands with the Earps, in the shootout, at the Ok Corral. Doc survives the gunfight, but death from tuberculosis is never far away. Mattie, desperate in her loneliness, writes that she had become a nun, and with those vows has taken a new name -- Sister Mary Melanie. Doc is stung by the news, but he is quick to realize that it was his own neglect that had placed Mattie in the nunnery. He is fully aware that his days are numbered, but he never wavers in his love for the girl back home. Following Docs death Wyatt Earp spoke of his friend and said, Doc was the most skillful gambler and the speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.

Doc

Mary Doria Russell
Doc Book PDF

Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812980004

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Doc by Mary Doria Russell Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore. In search of high-stakes poker, the couple hits the saloons of Dodge City. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology—when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.

Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal

Stuart N. Lake
Wyatt Earp Frontier Marshal Book PDF

Author : Stuart N. Lake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0671885375

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Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake Pdf

Tie into two Wyatt Earp movies--Tombstone, starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, and Wyatt Earp, starring Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid--with the definitive account of this American legend. Earp's life story reads like a movie, and now readers can experience his exploits in this classic account, originally published in 1931.