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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. By Karen Holliday Tanner. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xxx, 338 pp. $28.95, isbn 0-8061-3036-9.)

With this book, Karen Holliday Tanner has made two contributions to the literature on John Henry "Doc" Holliday. First, she (as a cousin of Doc Holliday and a trusted member of the family) collected family documents and interviewed surviving family members to produce a genealogy and a narrative history of Holliday's childhood and early life in Georgia (in chapters 1-6). Second, she used primary and secondary sources to produce a revisionist history of Doc Holliday's western adventures (in chapters 7-13). . . .

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