Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait by Karen Holliday Tanner

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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait

by Karen Holliday Tanner

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Info:	University of Oklahoma Press (2001), Paperback, 368 pages
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THE best biography of Doc Holliday. While it's no doubt best to balance it with a less sympathetic portrait, Tanner, a Holliday relative, has access to papers and artifacts no one else has and presents the most complete view ever (especially fascinating about his childhood) of a very complex, compelling, and enduringly mysterious figure. (

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In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner, a distant cousin, reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday's early years in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west.

Using previously undisclosed family documents and reminiscences as well as other primary sources, Tanner documents the true story of Holliday's friendship with the Earp brothers and his run-ins with the law, including the climactic shootout at the O.K. Corral and its aftermath.

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