Produktdetails
Titel: Doc Holliday
Autor/en: John Myers Myers
ISBN: 0803257813
EAN: 9780803257818
Sprache: Englisch.
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
August 1973 - kartoniert - 224 Seiten
Beschreibung
The unruly life of John Henry Holliday, who while "not a good man... was good at a number of things" - provides a lively, and deadly, chronology of the southwestern frontier. Born in Griffin, Georgia, in 1852, young Holliday was sent to Baltimore to study dentistry- but learned a couple of other things as well- to play cards, and to drink. A consumptive, he headed south for Dallas looking for a drier climate which he found largely in saloons where he became an expert faro dealer and a fast hand with a loaded gun as well as a stacked deck. Run out of Dallas, Dodge City, Kansas, and later Tombstone, Arizona, witnessed the many years of feuding and killing; the intermittent, brawling lovemaking with Kate- a rowdy slut; the partnership with Wyatt Earp whom John Myers Myers recorded at some length in The Last Chance (1950); and finally his slow dissolution which paralleled the dissolution of his world... The ?? of a man who "belonged in a wheel chair" but "held his own among as hardy a tribe of desperadoes as the world has ever seen" lends a certain reckless, de?? splendor to this life- unworthy and unedifying as it was. (Kirkus Reviews)
Portrait
Poet, novelist, and historian, John Myers Myers is the author of sixteen books, including "The Alamo" and "The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man," both available as Bison Books.
Pressestimmen
"In the figure of the old-time gamblin' man and cold killer, John Myers has found a subject perfectly suited to his talents and his methods. . . . The result is a solid though lively biography. . . . As for the general reader, interested in the old West, he'll eat this up and beg for more."--"San Francisco Chronicle"