Doc Holliday The Life and Legend Paperback - 2007
by Gary L. Roberts
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Details
- Title Doc Holliday The Life and Legend
- Author Gary L. Roberts
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, New York
- Date August 10, 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 20758a
- ISBN 9780470128220 / 0470128224
- Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.12 x 1.4 in (23.67 x 15.54 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005022233
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
"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 greatest heroes. With lively details of Holliday's spirited exploits, his relationships with such Western icons as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this book sheds new light on one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history.