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1) Doc: a novel
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English
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Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone and everything he loves in the hope that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Young, scared, lonely, and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier just as an economic crash wrecks the dreams of a nation. Soon, with few alternatives...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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On the run from his family's murderers, Ty Butler survives with a few good hands, a loaded gun, and a little luck. But lying low is harder since he's earned a rep at the poker table and made some new friends named Earp, Masterson, and Holliday. In Denver, Butler finds Holliday in the clutches of corrupt lawmen. Wanted for murder in Tombstone, he'd rather go out in a blazing gunfight than face a hanging judge. Butler just has to keep Doc breathing...
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English
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The amorous adventures of Kate Elder, a gambler's wife who became the mistress of Doc Holliday, the dentist-gunslinger. Later she became mistress to U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp and after a stint as a prostitute, returned to Holliday. Together the three journey to Tombstone for the famous gunfight at the OK Corral.
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Katie Elder had a reputation that stretched from Wichita to California. She was the Queen of the Bargirls--but no man could claim her until Doc Holliday came around. Holliday was a legend all his own--gambler, killer, sometimes doctor, and the outlaw partner of Wyatt Earp. Doc said he'd never met a woman he'd kill for--but that was before he met Big Nose Kate. From Dodge City to Tombstone, they gambled and fought and ran from the law. They were the...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron rule is needed, Dodge City. With him comes Mattie Blaylock, a runaway prostitute, who, like Wyatt, is searching for a chance at a better life. As marshal in Dodge, Wyatt establishes a reputation as...