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Title: Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait by Karen Holliday Tanner, Robert K. Dearment ISBN: 0-8061-3320-1 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: TOMBSTONE EPITAPH RAVES!
Comment: THE TOMBSTONE EPITAPH, July 1998 -- Review by C. F. Eckhardt, Book Bag Editor.
From the publication of this book on, any work about or mentioning John Henry Holliday, DDS, which does not list this book as a source must be considered essentially the product of imagination.
Previous serious attempts at biography of Doc Holliday had their good points, but they lacked one thing: No one had any real information on the background of the young Georgia dentist who became Doc Holliday.
The Holliday Family, for over a century, refused to even discuss their notorious relative with anyone outside the family circle. As a result, the background information in those books was based upon rumor, gossip, and a few matters of public record, some of which was relatively accurate but much of which was pure moonshine.
At long last the Holliday's have broken the silence. Tanner writes, "Enough time has past so that there is no one left who feels either shame or guilt over the life ! of John Henry." Therefore, from the Holliday family Bibles, letters, unpublished family manuscripts, genealogical records, and the gathered memories of the family, she has given us the story of a shy, retiring, handicapped child whose life was turned upside down twice -- once by the War Between the States and Reconstruction, and again by the death of his beloved mother and his father's hasty remarriage to a woman only eight years the senior of his son -- who became the legend known across the American West as 'Doc Holliday.'
This is the single 'must have' book on the subject of Doc Holliday. Any of the other biographies are worth reading, but only if you read them in conjunction with DOC HOLLIDAY, A FAMILY PORTRAIT will you get the full picture of the man who became Doc Holliday.
Rating: 5
Summary: If your only gonna read ONE!!!
Comment: Then this is THE Doc Holliday Book. Mrs. Tanner has done an excellent job of painting a true and realistic historically correct "diary" of his life and times. Some of the family input lends much provenance. My hat off to Mrs. Tanner/Holliday Respectfully, David W.
Rating: 5
Summary: Review of "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait"
Comment: I was very impressed with Ms. Tanner's work on Doc. Most people
think of Doc as being an assasin but this simply was not the case. Doc obtained his manners in Georgia, as well as his card
playing ability, and unfortunately TB. Doc was a brilliant man
who proved himself in the world of Dentistry. Ms. Tanner uses
a lot of information only she was privy to convey the transition
of this unusual man from being a Georgia Doctor to becoming a
"sporting man." Yes, Doc did kill some people. The times were
much harsher back then. If you gambled, you better have a six
gun on standby and be ready to use it if a crooked player crawfished a bet and tried to throw down on you. In my view,
Ms. Tanner also conveyed one of the most outstanding characteristics about Doc...his loyalty. He proved this time and time again with the Earps. I loved Ms. Tanner's book, and if Doc
were still alive, he would be welcome around my campfire anytime.
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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: I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp by Glenn G. Boyer ISBN: 0816505837 Publisher: Historical Research Associates Pub. Date: August, 1976 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Doc Holliday by Jim Myers, John M. Myers ISBN: 0803257813 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.89 |
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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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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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