American West, Term Paper “Doc” Holliday: A man in search of normality. John Henry Holliday, perhaps one of the most legendary gunfighters of the west, lived in reality a life built on necessity and simply followed it and made due with the blows that were dealt to him. Born August 14, 1851 to Alice and Henry Holliday, John Henry Holliday entered the world already at a disadvantage with a serious birth defect. The defect known as a …showed first 75 words of 3561 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3561 total…and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.” Bibliography Works Consulted. 1. Linder, Shirley. “When the dealings done, John H. (Doc) Holliday and the evolution of the Western Myth.” Journal of the West, Vol. 37, No. 3, page 53-60. 2. Marks, Paula. And Die in the West. New York: William, Morrow and Company, Inc., 1989. 3. Tanner, Karen Holliday. Doc Holliday:A Family Portrait. Norman: Oklahoma Press Co., 1998. 4. Walters, Lorenzo D. Tombstones Yesterday. Glorietta: Rio Grande Press, 1968.