The World of Doc Holliday: History and Historic Images - Hardcover

by Victoria Wilcox (Author)

His name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp, and he is probably most famous for his time in Tombstone.But Doc Holliday's story is a much richer than that one sentence summary allows. His was a life of travel across the west--from Georgia to Texas, from Dodge City to Las Vegas, across Arizona and from New Mexico to Colorado and Montana. Revealed from contemporary newspaper accounts and records of interviews with Doc himself and the people who knew him and packed with archival photos and illustrations, The World of Doc Holliday offers a real first-hand accounting of his life of adventure.

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Reading line: A pictorial travelogue of the adventurous life of the legendary Doc Holliday. John Henry "Doc" Holliday--his name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls, of a friendship with Wyatt Earp and the famous silver camp of Tombstone. But Doc Holliday's story is much richer than what those highlights reveal. He was a modern Victorian man, well-educated and well-trained for a professional career, a man whose life seemed destined to be lived in the cities of nineteenth-century America, cities connected by thousands of miles of rail. If his circumstances hadn't taken a surprising change, sending him West into legend as Doc Holliday, he likely never would have taken part in a posse ride across a Western desert, or taken a stagecoach trip across a precipitous Rocky Mountain pass. But even in the West, Doc made most of his journeys by rail--from Georgia to Texas, from Dodge City to Las Vegas, across Arizona, and from New Mexico to Colorado and Montana. For Tombstone, after all, was only a short eighteen months of his legendary life, and there was so much more to Doc Holliday than a gunfight near the O.K. Corral. Revealed from contemporary newspaper accounts and records of interviews with Doc himself and the people who knew him, The World of Doc Holliday offers a true first-hand accounting of his adventure-filled life. Victoria Wilcox is Founding Director of Georgia's Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum (home of the family of Doc Holliday) and an expert on the life of the Western legend. She authored the award-winning historical novel trilogy, Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday, the documentary film In Search of Doc Holliday, has lectured across the country, guested on NPR affiliates, and was featured in the TV series Legends & Lies: The Real West.

Author Biography

Victoria Wilcox is Founding Director of Georgia's Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House Museum (the antebellum home of the family of Doc Holliday, now a site on the National Register of Historic Places), where she learned the family's untold stories of their legendary cousin. Her work with the museum led to two decades of original research, making her a nationally recognized authority on the life of Doc Holliday. She is the author of the documentary film In Search of Doc Holliday and the award-winning historical novel trilogy Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday, for which she twice received Georgia Author of the Year honors and in 2016 was named Best Historical Western Novelist by True West Magazine. She has lectured across the country, appeared in local and regional media, guested on NPR affiliates, and was featured in the Fox Network series Legends & Lies: The Real West. She is a member of the Western Writers of America, the Wild West History Association, the Historical Novel Society, and the Writer's Guild of the Booth Museum of Western Art and has been a featured contributor to True West Magazine. In the summer of 2017, she joined actor Val Kilmer (Tombstone) as guest historian at the inaugural "Doc HolliDays" in Tombstone, Arizona, site of the legendary OK Corral gunfight.