Frontier World of Doc Holliday - Hardcover

Jahns, Pat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566191599 ISBN 13: 9781566191593

Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Eaten by tuberculosis, sustained by alcohol, John Henry â Docâ Holliday walked the streets of Dodge City, Dallas, Denver, Leadville, Deadwood, and Tombstone in their roistering heydays. The frail-looking dentist could be deadly when the drink wore off and someone crossed him. Doc Holliday was a paradox: respectable citizen and notorious gambler, gentleman and murderer, married to a prostitute called Big-Nosed Kate but devoted only to the memory of his mother. Pat Jahns includes a full and exciting account of the shootout at the O.K. Corral.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Jahns also wrote The Violent Years: Simon Kenton and the Ohio-Kentucky Frontier. Roger D. McGrath, a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier.

From Library Journal:

Doc Holiday's name is immediately recognizable, but what most people know of him is based on romanticized accounts played out in the movies. This 1957 biography unearths the real Holiday, who in truth was a gambler and shootist but also a respectable citizen devoted to his mother.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1566191599
• ISBN 13: 9781566191593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320