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Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone
Added: (Fri Nov 14 2008)
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Arizona Territory
October 26, 1881
Three Killed in Gunfight at Tombstone
The Law and Political Corruption Face Off at the OK Corral
Panorama City, CA – (Release Date TBD) – Tom Barnes pulls out his guns and lays down his cards as he goes down the old dusty trail to dredge up Doc Holliday’s frontier life in Doc Holliday’s Road to Tombstone: The Life and Times of John Henry Holliday. Barnes moves the usual spotlight from Holliday’s association with the Earps to aim it at the two prominent women in the Doc’s life.
Bob Anderson gets an invitation from his avid fan, journalist Lucy Caldwell, to peruse an old manuscript on Doc Holliday. Being a staunch researcher of the Western Legend, Anderson accepts. He had been missing an important section in the Doc Holliday puzzle in the form of Sister Melanie and had begun losing hope of ever filling that taunting hole. Before meeting the journalist, he starts on the manuscript and gets transported back to the times of the old West. As he delves deeper into the documents, his hope revives with the possibilities of getting more than he had originally sought.
Fresh-faced and brimming with dreams, John Henry Holliday steps out of dental college into the real world and into the arms of his cousin, Mattie. Where their family failed in breaking them apart, John’s failing health succeeded, as tuberculosis forces him to seek out a drier climate in the west. Loneliness and frustration at dental practice drives him onto the life of a frontier vagabond, taking up guns and earning a living out of gambling. On this hellishly exciting path, the now Doc Holliday meets up with among others Katie Elder, Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson. Meanwhile, Mattie’s feelings endure distance and time to haunt Doc.
As it traces Doc’s life to the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Doc Holliday’s Road to Tombstone: The Life and Times of John Henry Holliday reveals the less exposed soft side of the legend amid the tough gun-slinging and gambling life Doc Holliday is more prominently known for.
Updated Version
Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone * by Tom Barnes
The Life and Times of John Henry Holliday
Publication Date: October 21, 2008
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