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A stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Lonesome Dove. The triumphant return of Larry McMurtry with this ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West. Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable...
2) Doc: a novel
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Born to the life of an educated Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given a choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone he loves in hopes of finding health in the West. Young, scared, lonely and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier in time for an economic crash. Soon he's gambling professionally and living with a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore who insists that they...
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"The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City and Wild Bill. On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, nine men clashed in what would be known as the most famous shootout in American frontier history. Thirty bullets were exchanged in thirty seconds, killing three men and wounding three others. The fight sprang forth from a tense, hot summer. Cattle rustlers...
4) Tombstone
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After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Roberts takes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxical gunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than twenty years of research-including new primary sources-in his quest to separate the life from the legend. Doc Holliday was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his...
7) Wyatt Earp
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Warner Home Video
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After being turned away from the Union Army because of his youth, Wyatt studies law and marries Urilla. But Urilla dies before they can have children. Earp grows despondent and its his father who sets him straight. Wyatt becomes a buffalo hunter and a close companion of Bat Masterson and his brother Ed. With his brothers, Virgil and Morgan, Wyatt sets out to clean up the violence-plagued towns of the old West. In Tombstone, the Earp brothers and their...
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Mill Creek Entertainment
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[2014]
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English
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Gallop through history with the bullets and badges that attempted to bring order to the Wild West. See how men like Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp and 'Doc' Holliday became frontier legends in their quest to keep the peace and stay alive. Witness some of the most infamous events in American history through authentic re-enactments, historical accounts and archived photos. This unique six part documentary series examines the personalities, weapons, tactics...
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Criterion collection volume 732
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
10) The outlaw
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"Law-enforcer Pat Garrett's ruse [is] to trap and cage legendary outlaw Billy the Kid. But Billy is wise to the lawman's scheme and lies low at pal Doc Holliday's ranch. Trouble soon begins to brew, however, when The Kid falls for Doc's lover Rio. Although Billy is responsible for the death of Rio's brother, she returns the desperado's affection, and the two marry on the sly. But the betrothed couple have a volatile relationship, and as the trio run...
11) Territory
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Tor
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2007.
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Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.
You think you know the story. You don't.
Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.
Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them...
12) Hour of the gun
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"Guns don't stay in their holsters long when vigilantes Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday meet outlaws in the Wild West. With the dust barely settled at the OK Corral, the notorious Clanton brothers unleash their revenge. One by one, they gun down Wyatt Earp's brothers -- but they won't have the last shot. Using his US Marshal's badge as his authority, and Doc Holliday as his deputized right-hand man, Earp begins a zealous pursuit of vengeance that the...
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Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
16) BLOODY SEASON
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Presents an epic account of the brutal and legendary O.K. Corral shootout between Ike Clanton's cowboys and the Earp brothers.
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Paramount Home Entertainment
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[2017]
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English
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Frontier lawman Wyatt Earp joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John 'Doc' Holliday and puts a stop to the Clanton's lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one of Earp's brothers. This leads the men into the most devastating showdown in wild West history.
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Knox Robinson Publishing
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2014.
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English
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Gone West is the story of how a gentleman becomes an outlaw, how an outlaw becomes a lawman, and how a Southern son named John Henry becomes a legend called Doc Holliday. As the story races from Dallas to Dodge City from Denver to Trinidad and the Santa Fe Trail, he finds a new love affair, a new hero to follow - and an old enemy eager for a reckoning.
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