Doc holliday biography books

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 th

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The story that started it all, the Saga of Doc Holliday: Southern Son, Dance with the Devil, Dead Man&#;s Hand. The award-winning historical novel trilogy about the South&#;s most famous Western legend, John Henry &#;Doc&#; Holliday. From his childhood in Civil War era Georgia to the wilds of Texas and the streets of Tombstone, Arizona, Doc&#;s story is both an epic American adventure and an unforgettable love story. Click on the book covers to learn more and order your copies now!

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Doc Holliday: The Life And Legend

January 2,

This is the biography of a man who left no account of himself in his own words, which means it as much a book about "Doc Holliday" as it is about John Henry Holliday, D.D.S. Possibly slightly more. Given the inevitable constraints of its subject matter, I think it is an excellent book and excellent biography (the two overlap, but are not necessarily the same); Roberts is very careful about distinguishing between facts, fiction, and the stuff in the mushy area in-between. He's also very good about pointing out things we want to be true, such as the legend of the romance between Doc and his cousin Mattie (later Sister Mary Melanie), or the even more unsupported legend that Kate Elder nursed Doc on his deathbed.

I am furious at Mattie's sister Marie, who burned Doc's letters; in "protecting" her sister, she destroyed what seems to have been history's only chance to see John Henry Holliday without the obscuring lens of other peoples' agen