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...
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...
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...
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 stormy relationship of Doc Holliday and Kate Elder is perhaps the most perplexing and frustrating dimension of John Henry Holliday’s tragic...
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,...
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...
Imagine sitting at the dentist, getting a routine check up, when suddenly the doctor coughs in your face—and again, several times during the...
GOLDEN TALES FROM THE TRUE WEST STRONGBOX A classic from our January-February, 1960 issue DOC HOLLIDAY was one of the truly fascinating...
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...
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...
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;...