The stormy relationship of Doc Holliday and Kate Elder is perhaps the most perplexing and frustrating dimension of John Henry Holliday’s tragic story. Despite popular images of a violent and abusive tryst and old-timer gossip about Kate’s proclivities for sex acts frowned upon even by her generation of Cyprian sisters, little exists to provide an “intimate” portrait of their life together. Doc left not a word about her, and Kate’s accounts, given variously to Anton Mazzanovich,


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