Doc Holliday
Subtitle: a family portrait
By: by Karen Holliday Tanner ; foreword by Robert K. DeArment.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Holliday, John Henry, 1851-1887.; Holliday family.; Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Gamblers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Description: John H. Holliday, D.D.S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner 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 Doc'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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.