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2) Doc: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Born to the life of an educated Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given a choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone he loves in hopes of finding health in the West. Young, scared, lonely and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier in time for an economic crash. Soon he's gambling professionally and living with a high-strung Hungarian whore who insists that they follow the money to...
5) Territory
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.
You think you know the story. You don't.
Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.
Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
One man's visit to a modern version of the afterlife. The inhabitants range from Moses to Doc Holliday, they drink, copulate and laugh about the world they left. The hero has a romance with a woman whose soul has been split in two.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of John Henry "Doc" Holliday, the Arizona dentist who sided with Wyatt Earp in the gunfight at the OK Corral. He is portrayed as a sensitive man with a sardonic sense of humor, more complex than the simple gambler painted by history.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Bucker Fletcher plans to ride his horse for a $10,000 prize, money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed - and with it, his sick daughter's last hope. Though it's been ten years since Buck slapped leather and traded lead with the badmen of the frontier, he's quick to fasten on his gun belt again for the chase.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In this book 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.
20) The outlaw
Publisher
Roan Group Archival Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Howard Hughes shocked the film world in 1943 with this high-voltage western adventure that featured the steamy screen debut of voluptuous Jane Russell. Notorious for its time, this provocative retelling of the sagebrush saga of Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday-- and their heated rivalry for the love of the sultry Rio--explodes in a gripping and unforgettable climax as their fateful destinies collide with the legendary Sheriff Pat Garrett.
