77. Dettman, “Holiday Mystique,” 2. Lawrence Kasdan, who directed Wyatt Earp (1994), wrote, “Whoever gets to play Doc in any of these stories gets the choice role…. That is the showy role. This is a guy who’s dying when you meet him, who has given up all hope and therefore has no sense of responsibility and no worries about the future. He’s given it all up and he has a kind of freedom.”
78. Dettman, “Holliday Mystique,” 3.
Epilogue: The Measure of a Legend
1. Richard White, “Outlaw Gangs of the Middle Border: American Social Bandits,” Western Historical Quarterly 12 (1981): 403.
2. Tucson (Arizona) Daily Star, May 6, 1882.
3. Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890 (New York: Atheneum, 1985), 284–290.
4. No substantive evidence has come to light that confirms that the relationship was abusive. Kate never accused Doc of physically abusing her.
5. See especially his interviews with the Denver Republican, May 22, 1882, the Gunnison (Colorado) Daily News-Democrat, June 18, 1882, and the New York Sun, June 3, 1886.
6. John P. Clum to George H. Kelly, August 23, 1929, printed in Ellis T. “Butch” Badon, “An Unexpected Nugget,” NOLA Quarterly 25 (October–December 2001): 23–25.
7. Bruce Olds, Bucking the Tiger: A Novel (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001), 369, notes, “To pursue Doc is to pilot largely in the dark.”
8. Alfred Henry Lewis, The Sunset Trail (New York: Barnes, 1905), 357–358.
INDEX
Ableman v. Booth
Ackerson, Jerome E. “Jerry”
Acosta, Simon
Adams Express Company
Alamo Saloon (Dodge City, Kansas)
Albuquerque Evening Review (newspaper)
Albuquerque Morning Journal (newspaper)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
alcohol, Holliday, John Henry “Doc,”
Alhambra Saloon (Tombstone, Arizona)
Allen, Cyrus
Allen, Jack
Allen, James
Allen, John
Allen, William G.
Allen, William J.
Altman, Jack
American Revolution
Ames, Andrew
anesthesia, medical science
anti-Semitism
Apache people, See also native Americans; specific native American people
Appomattox Courthouse, surrender at
Arlington Saloon and Gambling Hall (Silverton, Colorado)
Armijo, Perfecto
Arnett, Alex
Arnold, Alex
arson, Elder, Kate
Arthur, Chester A.
Ashton, Scott
Aspen Times (newspaper)
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe/Rio Grande Railroads dispute
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta Constitution (newspaper)
Atlanta Post-Appeal (newspaper)
Austin, Charles W.
Axtell, A. E.
Ayers, J. B.
Ayes, T.W.
Babb, John A.
Babb’s Variety House (Denver, Colorado)
Baca, Epifanio
Baggs, Charles “Doc”
Bagsby, Charley
Bailey, Ed
Bakewell, Charles E.
Baldwin, Sam
Bank Exchange Saloon (Tombstone, Arizona)
Barnes, Johnny
Barnum, I. E.
Bartholomew, Charley
Bartholomew, Ed
Barton, Jerry
Bassett, Charles E.
Bear River riot (1867)
Bechdolt, Frederick
Becker, Pete
Beecher’s Island fight
Bee Hive Saloon and Dance Hall (Fort Griffin Flat, Texas)
Beeson, Chalkney
Behan, Albert
Behan, John H.
Clanton inquest
Cow-Boys
Cow-Boys posse
criticism of
Earp, Virgil
Earp, Wyatt
Earp/Clanton imbroglio
Earp/Clanton shootout
Elder, Kate
gambling feud
Gosper, John J.
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Joyce, Milton E., 129
Mallon, Perry
McLaury, Robert Findley “Frank”
Paul, Robert H. “Bob”
Peel, Martin R.
politics
Prescott, Arizona
prison break
Purdy, Sam
Ringo, John Peters
stagecoach robbery
Stilwell, Frank, shooting
Stilwell, William H.
Stilwell-Spence hearing
threats against
Tombstone, Arizona sheriff
Tritle, Frederick A.
Tucson, Arizona
Bell, Tall
Bell, William
Bennett, James
Bennett, W. H.
Benson stage robbery
Berry, George A. B.
Bertholf, B. O.
Biddle, James
Biertzhoff, Sigmund
Big Bonanza Saloon (Atlanta, Georgia)
Bigelow, Henry J.
Biggers, Don H.
Bilicke, A. C.
Bilicke, C. G.
Billy the Kid
Bird Cage Theater (Tombstone, Arizona)
Bisbee Brewery Gulch Gazette (newspaper)
Bisbee stage robbery
Blackburn, Leslie
Black Hills gold rush
Black Jack Bill
Blaylock, Mattie
Bliemel, Emerson
Blinn, Lewis W.
Blonger, Lou
Blonger, Sam
Blount, Allen
Board of Trade (Leadville, Colorado)
Bode, Frederick W., “Freis”
Bolds, George D.
books. See also media; movies; specific names of newspapers and magazines
Earp, Virgil
Earp, Wyatt
Elder, Kate
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Bork, Arthur W.
Borland, Addie
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Boston Post (newspaper)
Boyer, Glenn G.
Boyle, Ned
Brackett, Texas
Bradbury, Edward
Brady, William
Bragg, Braxton
Breakenridge, William M.
Breckenridge, Texas
Breen, Timothy
Brocius, Curly Bill
acquittal of, for Fred White killing
Cow-Boys
Cow-Boys posse
death of
Earp, Morgan, shooting by
Earp, Virgil
Earp, Wyatt
Earp, Wyatt, killing of
Fort Griffin Flat, Texas
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
media
White, Fred, killing
Bronk, A.G.
Browder, J. S.
Brower, George
Brown, Clara
Brown, Hoodoo. See Neill, Hyman G. “Hoodoo Brown”
Brown, John (abolitionist)
Brown, John (policeman)
Brown, Joseph E.
Brown, Neal
Buchanan, James
buffalo trade
Bullock, Rufus
Burge, Wayne
Burns, Daniel (alias Denny McCann)
Burns, Walter Noble
Burr, Samuel
Burroughs, Rebecca
Bust, Mary Virginia
Buzzard, Thomas
Byers, Billy
Byers, Sid
Byrnes, Big Ed
Cady, Frank
Calhoun, John
Calhoun, Jonathan
Campbell, Bryan
Campbell, Ernest L.
Campbell, G. W.
Campbe
ll, Rezin J.
Campbell & Hatch Saloon (Tombstone, Arizona)
Carbonate Chronicle (newspaper)
Carland, L. H.
Carr, John
Carr, T. J. “Jeff”
Carson, Joe
Cash, W. J.
Castello, Joseph
Catholicism, Holliday, Martha Anne (Mattie) (cousin)
cattle drives
Central College for Young Women (Griffin, Georgia)
Chaffee, Jerome B.
Chambers, Robert
Chandler, Jack
Chase, Ed
Chattanooga, Battle of
Chaves, Antonio
Cherokee Lottery of
Cherokee people. See also native Americans; specific native American people
Georgia
removal of
Cherokee Phoenix (newspaper)
Cheyenne people, See also native Americans; specific native American people
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Chickamauga, Battle of
Chisholm, Joseph F.
Chisum, John
chloroform, medical science
Choate, Rufus
Chucovitch, Vaso
Chucovitch Saloon (Denver, Colorado)
Cincinnati Enquirer (newspaper)
Citizens Safety Committee (Tombstone, Arizona)
Civil War (U.S.)
Confederate morale
Confederate reversals
Confederate surrender
Georgia
Holliday and McKey families
outbreak of
Southern frontier
Claiborne, William
Clanton, Billy
Clanton/McLaury shootout
coroner’s inquest
Cow-Boys
Dake, Crawley P.
death of
Earp, Wyatt
funeral of
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
horse and mule thefts
reputation of
Clanton, Joseph Isaac “Ike”
arrest of
Clanton/McLaury shootout
coroner’s inquest testimony
Cow-Boys
Cow-Boys posse
Earp, Morgan, shooting death
Earp, Virgil, shooting
Earp, Wyatt
funeral procession
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Holliday/Earp feud
media
murder trial of
posse for arrest of
reputation of
Stilwell, Frank, shooting
Stilwell-Spence hearing
Clanton, Newman Haynes “Old Man”
Clanton, Phineas “Fin”
Clanton/McLaury-Holliday/Earp shootout reaction, politics
Clapp, Milton
Clark, Alvin B.
Clark, Richard
Clarke, Elijah
cleft palate
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
medical science
Cleveland, Grover
Clift, J. W.
Clintry, Charley
Cloud, Joseph (maternal great grandfather)
Clum, John P.
Cobb, Howell
Cochise County
Cow-Boys in
efforts to extradite Doc Holliday from Colorado
Joyce, Milton E.
Tombstone, Arizona, county seat of
Wyatt Earp’s desire to be sheriff
Cold Chuck Johnny
Coleman, R. F.
Collar, Jacob
Collier, Mrs. J. C.
Collins, Edward “Shotgun”
Colton, Kid
Comanche people See also native Americans; specific native American people
Comique Theater (Dodge City, Kansas)
Compromise of
Comstock, Sylvester
Comstock mine
Confederate States of America See also Civil War (U.S.)
confidence games, Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Congressional Record
Constitutional Union Party, election of
consumption. See tuberculosis
Cook, Benjamin
Cook, David J.
Cooley, J.
Cooley, Lew
Cooper Load mine
Corbett, Jim
Corrigan, Thomas H.
Costner, Kevin
cotton production, Georgia
Cowan, E. D.
Cow-Boys
Allen, William
Behan, John H.
Clanton/McLaury shootout
courts and
Cow-Boys posse
criminal activities
described
Earp, Morgan, shooting death
Earp, Virgil
Earp/Clanton imbroglio
families
historical perspective
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Johnson, Turkey Creek Jack
Leonard, William
Masterson, Bat
media
Paul, Robert H. “Bob”
Purdy, Sam
Smith, Lee
social class
suppression of
threats by
Cowen, E. D.
Coyle, James
Crabtree, Lotta
“Cracker” culture, Southern frontier
Crane, J.
Crane, Jim
Creek people, See also native Americans; specific native American people
Cripple Creek, Colorado
Crook, W. W.
Cruger, William R.
Crummy, George W.
Cruz, Florentino
Cuba
Cummings, George
Cummings, Mary Katharine
“Curly Mack.” See Rustin, Harvey “Curly Mack”
Custer, George Armstrong
Cutler, Barney
Dake, Crawley P.
Daley, Farmer
Daley, William
Dallas, Texas
described
economy of
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Dallas Daily Herald (newspaper)
Danford, A.
Danner & Owen’s Saloon (Tombstone, Arizona)
Darnell, A. H.
D’Avignon, Frederick
Davis, Jefferson
Day, Joe
Day, Tony
Deadwood, South Dakota
Deal, Pony
Deckard, W. S.
Decker & Yonley (law firm)
Deger, Larry
DeMasters, Mac
Democratic Party, election of 1860
Dempsey, Edward B.
Denison, Texas, Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Denison Daily News (newspaper)
Dennis, August W.
dental profession
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Denver, Colorado
described
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
law enforcement
prostitution
Denver Daily Times (newspaper)
Denver Evening Times (newspaper)
Denver Field and Farm (newspaper)
Denver News (newspaper)
Denver Republican (newspaper)
Denver Rocky Mountain News (newspaper)
Denver Tribune (newspaper)
Denver Tribune-Republican (newspaper)
DeRemer, J. R.
Desmond, Pat
Dettman, Bruce
Deweese, John T.
Deweese & Naylor (law firm)
Dexter Corral
Dexter Saloon (Nome, Alaska)
Diedrich, Sam
Dill, D. C.
Dirty Sock Jack
Dodge, Fred
Dodge City, Kansas
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe/Rio Grande Railroads dispute
described
Dodge City Gang
Dodge City War
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
law enforcement in
&n
bsp; Masterson, Bat, shootout
prostitution
violence in
Webb, Josh
Dodge City Times (newspaper)
Dodge City War
Dodge House (Dodge City, Kansas)
Dominguez, Adolpho
Donnell, Edward
Dos Cabezas Gold Note (newspaper)
Doude, Ed
Douglas, Kirk
Downey, Edward T.
Draper, Jim
Dred Scott decision
Driskill, Bud
Driskill, Tobe
Drum, T. J.
Dublin. See Lyons, “Dublin”
dueling, Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Dull Knife raid (Kansas)
Dunbar, John O.
Duncan, Thomas J.
Dunfield, W. H.
Dunn, Bill
Dunn, Frank
Dunnigan, James
Dynamite Sam
Earnshaw, Harry
Earp, Allie
Earp, Bessie
Earp, James
Earp, Josephine
Earp, Louisa
Earp, Mattie
Earp, Morgan
Behan, John H.
books about
Clanton, Ike
Clanton/Deal posse
Clanton/McLaury feud
Clanton/McLaury shootout
Clanton/McLaury shootout aftermath
Clanton/McLaury shootout arrest
Clanton/McLaury shootout legal proceedings
Cow-Boys, 129
Dake, Crawley P.
Deal/Tiebot/Haws posse
deputized
finances of
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
lynch mob
politics
shooting death of
stagecoach robbery
Tombstone, Arizona
Wells, Fargo & Co.
Earp, Newton J.
Earp, Sallie
Earp, Virgil
Behan, John H.
Brocius, Curly Bill
Clanton, Ike
Clanton/McLaury feud
Clanton/McLaury shootout
Clanton/McLaury shootout aftermath
Clanton/McLaury shootout arrest
Clanton/McLaury shootout legal proceedings
Cow-Boys
Cow-Boys posse
Dake, Crawley P.
Earp, Morgan, shooting death
Earp, Wyatt
Elder, Kate
finances of
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Joyce, Milton E.
lynch mob
media
Paul, Robert H. “Bob”
politics
protection of
resignation of
shooting of
stagecoach robbery
Tombstone, Arizona
Tombstone, Arizona, marshal’s office
U.S. marshal
Earp, Warren
Holliday, John Henry “Doc”
Trinidad, Colorado
Earp, Wyatt
arrests of
Behan, John H.
Brocius, Curly Bill killing
Clanton, Billy
Clanton, Joseph Isaac “Ike”
Clanton/Deal posse
Clanton/McLaury feud
Clanton/McLaury shootout
Clanton/McLaury shootout aftermath
Clanton/McLaury shootout arrest
Clanton/McLaury shootout legal proceedings
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