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by Gary L Roberts

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Published: 2011

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"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...

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