Doc Holliday's Gone

by Jane Candia Coleman

Book Overview

Born Mary Katherine Horony in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she had socialized with Europe's royalty. But in the American West she was known by other names: Kate Fisher, Kate Elder, Mary May, and,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078621841X
• ISBN13: 9780786218417
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Five Star (ME)
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

HISTORICAL NOVEL BEATS MOST NONFICTION ON THIS SUBJECT

This story, is more creative/nonfiction than historical novel in view of the weatlth of primary sources on both subjects of this two novella book: Big Nose Kate Elder and Viola Slaughter, wife of famous sheriff John Slaughter.Author Coleman, has also written the historical novel on Big Nose Kate, Doc Holliday's Woman. This book is of the same quality and with the same historical insights from the family of Big Nose Kate. She was of minor Hungarian nobility, rather than the frontier floozie as which she is usually portrayed, such as by Fay Dunaway. Prior writers didn't even know Kate's real name, except for Glenn Boyer who discovered her family and real identity.Well worth reading both for Coleman's captivating style and characterization and for historical insights.