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Doc Holliday
Gary L. Roberts
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Description for Doc Holliday
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 37. Weight in Grams: 772.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
692g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Chichester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780470128220
SKU
V9780470128220
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About Gary L. Roberts
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 politics. He is the author of Death Comes for the Chief Justice: The Slough-Rynerson Quarrel and Political Violence in New ... Read more
Reviews for Doc Holliday
Who was Doc Holliday, the famed participant in the 1881 gunfight at OK Corral? Was he a killer and professional cutthroat, a reckless murderer, or a mild-mannered young man who would give aid to his friends, whatever the fight? Roberts (history, emeritus, Abraham Baldwin Coll.) considers these contrasting opinions as he relates John Henry Doc Holliday's life, a ... Read more