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In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Roberts takes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxical gunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than twenty years of research-including new primary sources-in his quest to separate the life from the legend. Doc Holliday was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his...
3) Doc: a novel
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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, Maria 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...
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"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, nine 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...
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"In Dance with the Devil, the second volume in the trilogy of novels, in the American Wild West, Jesse James and his gang are robbing trains, the Sioux Indians are on the warpath, and John Henry Holliday arrives in Texas as a young man with a troubled past hoping to regain his place as a Southern gentleman. The story races from the gambling halls of Dallas to the saloons of Dodge City and the dangers of the Santa Fe Trail, he finds a new love affair...
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Everyone around the world knows all about Wyatt Earp's exciting life story, the legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral and how his best friend named Doc Holliday was there to back him to the hilt, even willing to die for Wyatt and his brothers. But very few Western fans know anything at all about the extraordinary past of the infamous and dashing Doc Holliday himself. He was so much more than merely Wyatt's loyal best friend and defender in all dangers....
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"Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron rule is needed, Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life. As marshal in Dodge, Wyatt establishes a reputation as...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Katie Elder had a reputation that stretched from Wichita to California. She was the Queen of the Bargirls--but no man could claim her until Doc Holliday came around. Holliday was a legend all his own--gambler, killer, sometimes doctor, and the outlaw partner of Wyatt Earp. Doc said he'd never met a woman he'd kill for--but that was before he met Big Nose Kate. From Dodge City to Tombstone, they gambled and fought and ran from the law. They were the...
14) Doc Holliday
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Enslow
Pub. Date
c1995
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tells the story of the young dentist who gave up his practice to be a gambler and gunslinger in the frontier West of the late 1800s.
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Women of the West volume 2
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WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Despite her father's attempts to marry her off, Anna Finch dreams of becoming a reporter. A chance encounter with legendary gunslinger Doc Holliday gives her the opportunity of a lifetime, but Pinkerton agent Jeb Sanders is about to ruin everything. Though her father hired Jeb to keep her out of mischief, Anna's inconvenient attraction to her hired gun only multiplies her troubles. She doesn't realize Jeb has a score to settle with Doc Holliday, or...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Doc Holliday: "He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. As 'Doc' Holliday, a man fleeing his tragic past, drifted from the Dakota Territory to the wilds of Texas, living among some of the roughest men on the frontier, word spread quickly he never walked away from a gunfight--and he never drew too late. But it's not until he arrives at O.K. Corral that his story becomes legend..." -- Page...
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