Imagine sitting at the dentist, getting a routine check up, when suddenly the doctor coughs in your face—and again, several times during the...
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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...
The Split
Almost five years had passed since the gas-lit world of saloons and gambling halls brought Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday together in Texas. They...
The Leadville Years
Leadville, Colorado, was the last place Doc Holliday needed to be the summer of 1882—its climate was deadly for a man suffering from tuberculosis;...
Doc Holliday’s Last Days
Thirty seconds of withering gunfire raised John Henry “Doc” Holliday from frontier gambler to gunfighter immortal. Yet it was in a quiet little...
Tragedy and Triumph
The odyssey that led the Parker clan to the edge of the Texas frontier started far to the east, in the state of Virginia. John Parker, leader of a...
Revenge of the Yuma
For several hundred years the Yuma Indians had resided along the Lower Colorado River. They were of Hokan stock, primarily farmers who benefitted...
Stinking Rich
Stinking rich was Ho-Ta-Moie, which means rolling or roaring thunder....
Cattledrive to NYC
Texas Longhorns were a tough breed of cattle, in a tough place—Texas. And tough were the men that drove them. Two such men, though hardly men at...
History of the Cowboy
From about 1870 until the late 1930s, one style of hat reigned supreme on the Mexican border—the Sugarloaf Sombrero—named for the crown’s...
Remembering Mrs. Squatting Bear
The Steamer Fontenelle slowed and drifted towards the shore at Kansas City. Smoothly, the paddle wheel was switched into reverse and thrashed...