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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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."-BooklistIn 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. Zusammenfassung "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."-BooklistIn 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Prologue: The Measure of a Man 1 1 Child of the Southern Frontier 7 2 The World Turned Upside Down 25 3 Gone to Texas 55 4 Cow Towns and Pueblos 89 5 The Price of a Reputation 122 6 Friends and Enemies 159 7 The Fremont Street Fiasco 186 8 Vengeance 223 9 The Out Trail 258 10 A Holliday in Denver 284 11 A Living-and Dying-Legend 319 12 The Anatomy of a Western Legend 373 Epilogue: The Measure of a Legend 407 Notes 415 Index 501 ...
