No man is an island, isolated from his time and place, so exploring the world of a historical individual not only gives a sense of reality to his story—it can tell us things about his character we might have missed in a more targeted search. Take my study of Doc Holliday. While researching his dental school days in Philadelphia, I dug into the history of the city in the 1870s and explored the lives of his classmates at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. One student became intriguin
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