So, if you choose to make this 287-mile historical adventure across the state (which, by the way, offers a view of the most beautiful mountain...
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The Ballad of Don Edwards
In a fast-moving world where MTV has replaced live concerts and music is often delivered digitally off a “jukebox” known as a PC, can there still be...
I’ve been reading The Authentic Wild West/The Gunfighters, by James D. Horan. Horan writes that Bat Masterson has written about gunfighters such as Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Bill Tilghman, Charlie Bassett, Luke Short, Clay Allison and Jim Curry. I kno
I’ve been reading The Authentic Wild West/The Gunfighters, by James D. Horan. Horan writes that Bat Masterson has written about gunfighters such as...
Orlando “Rube” Robbins
Ask most Americans to name a few intrepid lawmen from the nineteenth century, and they are almost certain to list Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson...
Blaze Away!
A little over a year ago, at the True West headquarters in Cave Creek, Arizona, True West’s Senior Vice President Bob Brink asked me if there were...
Mischievous Minor
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...
Mrs. John Holliday?
The stormy relationship of Doc Holliday and Kate Elder is perhaps the most perplexing and frustrating dimension of John Henry Holliday’s tragic...
Ten Paces
No, he didn’t. No contemporary newspaper attributed the deed to Holliday. The first mention of Holliday’s involvement wasn’t until July 20, 1881,...
Doc Holliday Vs. Everyone
October 26, 1881 Doc Holliday remains out on Fremont Street as Virgil and Wyatt Earp enter the lot between Fly’s boarding house and the Harwood...
Looking for Doc in Dallas
Imagine sitting at the dentist, getting a routine check up, when suddenly the doctor coughs in your face—and again, several times during the...
Painting Doc’s Personality
GOLDEN TALES FROM THE TRUE WEST STRONGBOX A classic from our January-February, 1960 issue DOC HOLLIDAY was one of the truly fascinating...
Friends and Enemies
Dan Tipton and the Earp Vendetta Posse By Peter Brand Daniel Tipton’s name is not well known in the annals of the West. His character has never been...