Did Big Nose Kate carry a gun? Jim Ramsey Portland, Oregon “Kate did not need a gun. Her wit and cunning words were her best weapon (or worst enemy, depending),” says Anne Collier, curator of Cultural & Natural History Collections, at the University of La Verne in California, and an authority on Mary Katherine Horony, also known as “Big Nose Kate.” “There are no records of her carrying guns during her years with ‘Doc’ Holliday or after,” she adds. “I suspect, however,


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