Doc Holliday (Paperback)

The unruly life of John Henry Holliday, who while "not a good man... was good at a number of things" - provides a lively, and deadly, chronology of the southwestern frontier. Born in Griffin, Georgia, in 1852, young Holliday was sent to Baltimore to study dentistry- but learned a couple of other things as well- to play cards, and to drink. A consumptive, he headed south for Dallas looking for a drier climate which he found largely in saloons where he became an expert faro dealer and a fast hand with a loaded gun as well as a stacked deck. Run out of Dallas, Dodge City, Kansas, and later Tombstone, Arizona, witnessed the many years of feuding and killing; the intermittent, brawling lovemaking with Kate- a rowdy slut; the partnership with Wyatt Earp whom John Myers Myers recorded at some length in The Last Chance (1950); and finally his slow dissolution which paralleled the dissolution of his world... The ?? of a man who "belonged in a wheel chair" but "held his own among as hardy a tribe of desperadoes as the world has ever seen" lends a certain reckless, de?? splendor to this life- unworthy and unedifying as it was. (Kirkus Reviews)

"John Myers Myers has written Doc's story with a skill that matches the sureness of a bullet from Doc's gun."-Dallas Times Herald. "As for the general reader, he'll eat this up and beg for more."-San Francisco Chronicle.

General

Imprint:	Bison Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1973
First published:	August 1973
Authors:	John Myers Myers
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade / Trade
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-5781-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-5781-3
Barcode:	9780803257818

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