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"You can't beat this story for drama. . . . An omnibus of everything ever known, spoken, or written about Doc Holliday."—Publishers Weekly"An engagingly written, persuasively argued, solidly documented work of scholarship that will surely take its place in the literature of the Old West."—BooklistIn 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 enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierce loyalty to his friends compelled him, more than once, to risk his own life; and the sidekick whose near-mythic status rivals that of the West's greatest heroes. With lively details of Holliday's spirited exploits, his relationships with such Western icons as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this book sheds new light on one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history."You can't beat this story for drama. . . . An omnibus of everything ever known, spoken, or written about Doc Holliday."--Publishers Weekly"An engagingly written, persuasively argued, solidly documented work of scholarship that will surely take its place in the ...

Paperback / softback. New. He was a dentist from the South believed to have gone west because of tuberculosis, a man who went on to become a gambler, a faro dealer, and one of the most feared (and fearless) gunfighters of his time--a close friend of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the famous 1881 shootout at the OK Corral. ISBN 0470128224 9780470128220 [GB]

ISBN10: 0470128224, ISBN13: 9780470128220, [publisher: Wiley 2007-08-31, Hoboken, N.J. :|Chichester] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 0470128224, ISBN13: 9780470128220, [publisher: Wiley 2007-08-31, Hoboken, N.J. :|Chichester] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 0470128224, ISBN13: 9780470128220, [publisher: John Wiley & Sons] Softcover Gary L. Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History, Abraham Baldwin College, is widely recognized as a historian of the American West and frontier violence. He has published more than seventy-five articles on Western history and coedited a book on Georgia polit.
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