John Henry "Doc" Holliday was a man of education and refinement who went west after contracting tuberculosis
both hoping to find a cure in the prairie air and perhaps escaping his stolid homelife for the more adventurous
frontier. Once west, he would become a gunfighter, a gambler, and a saloon keeper--and he would find his way
into the legend of the West through his associations with the Earps, Bat Masterson, Big Nose Kate, and other
colorful characters who helped shape the frontier. Perhaps best known for his participation in the shoot out at the OK Corral and his many portrayals in film, this new biography reveals the many facets of his personality and proposes to set the record straight--or at least to tell the story that Doc Holliday would have preferred be told about himself.
