Ebook: Doc Holliday: the life and legend
Author: Roberts Gary L
- Tags: West (U.S.), Dentists--West (U.S.), Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.), Gamblers--West (U.S.), Outlaws--West (U.S.), Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography, Gamblers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography, Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.), Dentists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography, West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Holliday John Henry -- Biographie
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: Hoboken;NJ
- Language: English
- epub
"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."
-Booklist
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 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...