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Doc Holliday

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by Matt Braun


  A legend was born the day Dr. John H. Holliday became Doc Holliday. Wasted by disease, a fatalist who never lost his sardonic wit, he was a figure of mythical proportions across the Western frontier. His exploits in life made him immortal in death.

  Doc Holliday, the gentleman rogue, will live forever.

  AUTHOR’S NOTE

  DOC HOLLIDAY is the untold story.

  All too many people believe the saga of Doc Holliday began with the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Historical chronicles offer abundant proof that nothing could be further from the truth. Doc Holliday was a legend long before he met Wyatt Earp.

  A shootist and mankiller, Holliday was widely known across the Western frontier. Newspaper accounts of the day rank him with such heralded gunfighters as Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, and Clay Allison. He was a figure of mythical proportions, a gambler who lived by the gun.

  Doc Holliday strode across the pages of the Old West. His name was respected and feared in boomtowns and mining camps from Dakota Territory to the wilds of Texas. He was formidable and deadly, and in his time, his reputation far overshadowed that of Wyatt Earp. He was a gunfighter who accepted any challenge, and never lost.

  DOC HOLLIDAY is the story of those years before the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. A span of time in which a dentist known as Dr. John H. Holliday was transformed into the Doc Holliday of legend. A tale of a gentleman who became a shootist without equal.

  ST. MARTIN’S PAPERBACKS TITLES

  BY MATT BRAUN

  WYATT EARP

  BLACK FOX

  OUTLAW KINGDOM

  LORDS OF THE LAND

  CIMARRON JORDAN

  BLOODY HAND

  NOBLE OUTLAW

  TEXAS EMPIRE

  THE SAVAGE LAND

  RIO HONDO

  THE GAMBLERS

  DOC HOLLIDAY

  YOU KNOW MY NAME

  THE BRANNOCKS

  THE LAST STAND

  RIO GRANDE

  GENTLEMAN ROGUE

  THE KINCAIDS

  EL PASO

  INDIAN TERRITORY

  BLOODSPORT

  SHADOW KILLERS

  BUCK COLTER

  KINCH RILEY

  DEATHWALK

  HICKOK & CODY

  THE WILD ONES

  HANGMAN’S CREEK

  JURY OF SIX

  THE SPOILERS

  MANHUNTER

  THE WARLORDS

  THE OVERLORDS

  PRAISE FOR MASTER STORYTELLER MATT BRAUN

  “Braun takes the big men, the complex personalities of those brave few who were pivotal figures in the settling of an untamed frontier.”

  —Jory Sherman, author of Grass Kingdom

  “Matt Braun is one of the best!”

  —Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series

  “Braun blends historical fact with ingenious fiction … A top-drawer Western novelist.”

  —Robert L. Gales, Western biographer

  DOC HOLLIDAY: THE GUNFIGHTER

  Copyright © 1997 by Matt Braun.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

  St. Martin’s Paperbacks are published by St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

  eISBN 9781466816091

  First eBook Edition : April 2012

  St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition/August 1997

 

 

 


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