He was born in the heat of a long Southern summer, on the fourteenth of August 1851, in the up-and-coming city of Griffin, Georgia. The only son of the oldest son, primary heir of the Holliday family and future guardian of the family’s good name, John Henry Holliday shouldered a heavy burden for which he was well groomed. From his father, Henry Burroughs Holliday, he learned the cool courage of a military man.
From his mother, Alice Jane McKey Holliday, he learned the genteel ways of plantati

May 2004
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- Rock Creek Killfest
- Is it true that you can fire multiple shots from a percussion cap pistol if you don’t grease the lead when you load it into the cylinder?
- Patton’s Peacemaker Blazes Again
- Mojave Drums
- Kirk Ratajesak
- All This Way for the Short Ride
- Custer Battlefield Museum
- Did Davy Really Die?
- Bird’s-eye View of 19th-century Mining
- Spittin’ Against the Wind
- Do any of the guns used in the gunfight near the O.K. Corral exist? If so, where are they?
- Did any Old West ranchers ever try to raise buffalo with their cattle?
- What is the name of the horse Teddy Roosevelt rode during the Battle of San Juan Hill?
- Why was John Johnson dug up in 1974 from the old soldiers home graveyard in Los Angeles, California, and reburied in Cody, Wyoming?
- Christina Hillius
- Vera and the Sultan
- Two Fingers, Straight Up
- Sings in Color