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"An engagingly written, persuasively argued, solidly documentedwork of scholarship that will surely take its place in theliterature of the Old West."
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In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Robertstakes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxicalgunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than twenty years ofresearch-including new primary sources-in his quest to separate thelife from the legend. Doc Holliday was a study in contrasts: thelegendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; theemaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts ofhis enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierceloyalty to his friends compelled him, more than once, to risk hisown life; and the sidekick whose near-mythic status rivals that ofthe West's greatest heroes. With lively details of Holliday'sspirited exploits, his relationships with such Western icons asWyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral,this book sheds new light on one of the most mysterious figures offrontier history.
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"An engagingly written, persuasively argued, solidly documentedwork of scholarship that will surely take its place in theliterature of the Old West."
-Booklist
In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Robertstakes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxicalgunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than twenty years ofresearch-including new primary sources-in his quest to separate thelife from the legend. Doc Holliday was a study in contrasts: thelegendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; theemaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts ofhis enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierceloyalty to his friends compelled him, more than once, to risk hisown life; and the sidekick whose near-mythic status rivals that ofthe West's greatest heroes. With lively details of Holliday'sspirited exploits, his relationships with such Western icons asWyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral,this book sheds new light on one of the most mysterious figures offrontier history.
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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 Mexico.
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- Data di pubblicazione2007
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They deserve serious study simply because they have continued to grip the public imagination. Such was Doc Holliday, and Gary Roberts has produced a model for looking at both the life and the legend of these frontier immortals." --Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "Doc Holliday emerges from the shadows for the first time in this important work of Western biography. Gary L. Roberts has put flesh and soul to the man who has long been one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history. This is both an important work and a wonderful read." --Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend "Gary Roberts is one of a foremost class of writers who has created a real literature and authentic history of the so-called Western. His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Corral and into the glare of history." --Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was "Gary L. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. Family members knew him as John. Somewhere in between the two lies the real John Henry Holliday. Roberts reflects this concept in his writing. This book should be of interest to Holliday devotees as well as newly found readers." --Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780470128220
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