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Title: Doc Holliday by Jim Myers, John M. Myers ISBN: 0-8032-5781-3 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.89 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Typical Myers biography
Comment: I love John Myers Myers, and his writing style, but I understand how many people can be turned off by it.
First of all, this is not so such a biography of Doc Holliday as Myers WRITING a biography about Holliday. What I mean by this is that Myers is a VERY self-indulgent writer. He loves to play around with words, include quick humorous phrases on a whim, and make self-referencial comments throughout any book he writes, which includes this one.
His research tends to be strong, and he tends to take rather radical views of his topics, views which challenge what is normally held as the truth about his subjects. (His book on the San Francisco vigilante committee days completely deflates the idea that the vigilantes stood for anything other than their own personal vendettas and profits.)
This book is pretty tame by Myers conventions, but is still a bit indulgent. It's a good read, but do expect to have to re-read pages, get side-tracked by witty comments, and indulge in wordplay. That's the Myers way!
Rating: 3
Summary: BOOK OF ITS TIME
Comment:
When John Myers Myers wrote this book not much was publicly available and/or known about Doc. Hence, his book, like Pat Jahns, was more about the place and time than the man. Jahns at least admitted it in her title with (FRONTIER WORLD OF ETC.). Both wrote 98% about the World of Doc and 2% about Doc from necessity. Myers is better in his Tombstone Last Chance book and did some creditable research. Jahns was the first to find Doc's family and interview members and also find Frank Waters Unpublished Ms. on Aunt Allie Earp in the Arizona Historical Society. (Of course she had no way of knowing that was half spurious.) John Myers Myers, however, had a great feel for the time and place and understood "Gunfigher Psychology."
Good read in any case. It should be in the "Compleat Western Buff's Bookshelf." Product of its times.
Rating: 5
Summary: My Review of "Doc Holliday" by John Myers
Comment: The author did his research and obtained his information from
good sources to be sure. He writes like Shakespeare. His vast
expanse of vocabulary for the time frame of Doc as well as a
lot of verbage from the time period is spectacular. His book
takes off where Ms. Karen Tanner's book leaves off. While they
both compliment each other, there are some glaring differences.
Mr. Myers book is "down to earth" and I would rate it a six if
one more point where allowed.
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Title: Doc Holliday by Matt Braun ISBN: 0312962703 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait by Karen Holliday Tanner, Robert K. Dearment ISBN: 0806133201 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Wyatt Earp : The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller ISBN: 0471283622 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 25 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Frontier World of Doc Holliday by Patricia Jahns, Pat Jahns, Roger D. McGrath ISBN: 0803276087 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.62 |
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Title: John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was by Jack Burrows ISBN: 0816516480 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.35 |
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