The Frontier World of Doc Holliday by Pat Jahns (1993, Hardcover)

The Frontier World of Doc Holliday
Faro Dealer from Dallas to Deadwood
by Pat Jahns
Publisher: Indian Head Books
Copyright 1993

From Doc Holliday:

"Came a knock on the door, Doc cursed the knocker fluently, and coldly.  A succession of blows shook the door in its frame.  Doc went off into a violent coughing spell.  His hands jerked so that he could hardly get the lamp lit.  The banging on his door continued.  Just as he got the chimney rattle back on the lamp and was catching his breath after nearly choking to death, the flimsy lock gave."

This biography of the legendary John Henry "Doc" Holliday, the Georgia dentist who became the most famous faro dealer of his time, shows him to be a frontier paradox:  though considered to be a poor shot, he is reputed to have killed more men than Wild Bill Hickock, and never stopped a bullet during a fifteen-year association with some of the most famous and infamous gunmen of the Old West including Wyatt and Morgan Earp, the Clantons, Johnny Ringo, Frank McLowry and others.  If Doc Holliday failed to live up to the role later invented for him, in the words of Pat Jahns, he made up for it "by the diversity of his characteristics and accomplishments -- being a tubercular, and alcoholic, a lawman, a gentleman, a friend, a complex, intelligent person . . . holding to his strange motto and fantastic loyalties though they killed him."

Doc's career carried him from Griffin, Georgia to Glenwood Springs, Colorado with many steps along the way including Dodge City, where he met Katie Elder, Leadville, Dallas, Denver, and Tombstone, Arizona, which he left in a hurry after the shootout at the O.K. Corral.

"Coughing, his hand poised to grab the gun tucked in his vest . . . he feared no man, he feared no thing."

Here is his story.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning and discolored from age.  Dust cover and flaps may be tanning from age and show a bit of edge wear and light creases.

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