Doc Holliday: A Family Portait by Karen Holliday Tanner, Robert K. DeArment (Foreword by)

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  • Pub. Date: March 2001
  • 368pp
  • Sales Rank: 178,292
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    • Pub. Date: March 2001
    • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
    • Format: Paperback, 368pp
    • Sales Rank: 178,292

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    In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner, a distant cousin, 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.

    Using previously undisclosed family documents and reminiscences as well as other primary sources, Tanner documents the true story of Holliday's friendship with the Earp brothers and his run-ins with the law, including the climactic shootout at the O.K. Corral and its aftermath.

    "The definitive biography of this Wild West legend."—Roundup Magazine

    "This work is extremely well-written, easy to read, fascinating, and well-researched. It is highly recommended for those interested in the actual truth concerning such a man, the western frontier of the 1870-80s, and the bigger-than-life personalities it occasionally created."—Denver Westerners

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    A Holliday Family Point of Viewby TomBarnes39

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    November 15, 2008: Karen Holliday Tanner draws on family history, papers, albums and oral stories to augment hard research of libraries, museums, historical societies and personal collections. Through her exhaustive research, Ms. Tanner puts to rest some of the wild exaggerations of killings, life of a con man, and criminal schemes supposedly perpetrated by Doc during his life.
    Young John Henry Holliday?s early days were spent in Griffin, Georgia with his father Henry Holliday and mother Alice.
    Henry Holliday was a prominent Griffin citizen, first clerk of the court of Spalding County, and was involved in real estate and land speculation. The elder Holliday had a military background and had fought in the Mexican War. Early in the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army in Virginia. Following his military service Holliday purchased land in South Georgia and moved his family there.
    Alice Holliday contracted tuberculosis and died in September of 1866. John Henry mourned the loss of his mother and felt that his father had betrayed her name when he married Rachel Martin less than three months after the death of mother Holliday. The marriage caused a schism between father and son that never quite healed.
    John Henry was a bright student and eventually chose dentistry as a profession. He graduated from The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872 and returned to Atlanta where he practiced dentistry until he contracted tuberculosis and traveled west in search of a dryer climate.
    John Henry Holliday became known as Doc Holliday and using his charm, wit and gambling skills made a name for himself and collected an array of friends Kate Elder, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short and Eddie Foy just to name a few.
    While in Dodge City Doc saved Wyatt Earp from an angry mob of drunken cowboys and Wyatt never forgot it. Doc and Wyatt were both well known in gambling circles, but the incident that turned them into legends was the shootout at the OK Corral.
    Doc stood with Wyatt and his brothers on the side of law and order against Cochise County?s political ring.
    This book will flesh out several not seen before points in the Holliday story.
    Tom Barnes author of `Doc Holliday?s Road to Tombstone

    Insightfulby ArtemisSun

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    October 27, 2008: Written from the viewpoint of a blood-relative. One of the best I have read on Doc Holliday with background on his life in the south before moving west.

    I Also Recommend: Doc Holliday, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone.