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AUGUST 2016
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WILD WEST
 
OCTOBER 2016
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HOLLIDAY IN MONTANA 
By Peter Brand
Ever the gambler, Doc Holliday left Leadville to try his luck in Butte
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 ADELIA EARP’S DUBIOUS MEMOIR
By Scott Dyke
The alleged recollections of Wyatt’s little sister do
not 
 pass muster 
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FOUNTAIN OF THE RED PIPE
By Bill Markley 
Minnesota quarries are Indians’ sacred source for ceremonial pipe bowls
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THE HATFIELD  WHO WENT WEST
By F. Keith Davis
In search of peace, this foe of the McCoys pulled up stakes in West Virginia
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FATHER OF THE ‘FIGHTING EARPS’
By Nicholas R. Cataldo
Roving Nicholas Earp put down roots in California’s San Bernardino County 

 
OCTOBER 2016
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4 EDITOR’S LETTER8 LETTERS10 ROUNDUP14 INTERVIEW
By Johnny D. Boggs
 Texas State Historian Bill O’Neal has written more than 40 books
16 WESTERNERS
Dime novelist Ned Buntline was adept at promoting himself and others
18 GUNFIGHTERS AND LAWMEN
By Bill O’Neal
 Romanticized as a Southern hero, Cullen Baker was nothing but a killer 
20 PIONEERS AND SETTLERS
By Jim Winnerman
 Residents of Old Mines, Missouri, sustained a French dialect for 250 years
22 WESTERN ENTERPRISE
By Ramon Vasconcellos
 A.P. Giannini’s Bank of Italy grew into the multinational Bank of America
24 ART OF THE WEST
By Bill Markley 
 Travis Erickson works a one-man quarry at Pipestone National Monument 
26 INDIAN LIFE
By David McCormick 
 Navajo medicine man Bai-a-lil-le tamed lightning and defied whites
66 STYLE NEW!
Showcasing the West in art, film, fashion and more
74 COLLECTIONS
By Linda Wommack 
 Historic Fort Walla Walla Park offers visitors a museum and pioneer village
76 GHOST TOWNS
By Jessica Wambach Brown
 A scion of the namesake brewing family financed Molson, Washington
78 GUNS OF THE WEST
By George Layman
 Soldiers and outdoorsmen made good use of .69-caliber smoothbore muskets
80 REVIEWS
The Lone Star State historian recommends books and videos about frontier-era Texas. Plus eight reviews of recent books
88 GO WEST
California’s Owens Valley is a cure for headache and heartache
ON THE COVER 
Obscured by his reputation as a killer embittered by illness, Doc Holliday was a child of the Old South who became a mythical figure in the Old West. (Adapted from Don Crowley’s
Doc Holliday: Well I’ll be Damned! 
; color added by Brian Walker)
DEPARTMENTS
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DOC & KATE
By Gary Roberts
In real life and on-screen they were among the Wild West’s best-known yet curious couples
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EDITOR’S LETTER
WILD WEST
 
OCTOBER 2016
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   A   B   O   V   E  :   P   A   U   L   A   N   D   R   E   W    H   U   T   T   O   N   C   O   L   L   E   C   T   I   O   N
As I write these words,
 spring is in the air. But as you read this, it’s already time to bid farewell to summer and embrace the fall. Such is the speed of life, especially after you reach a certain age. Whatever that age is, John Henry “Doc” Holliday likely didn’t reach it. After graduating from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872, contracting tuberculosis and taking his practice west, he cut his teeth on gambling and frontier adventure. And Wild West aficionados are glad he did. Doc died at age 36, which might have been longer than he expected, though historians have disputed the notion of a fatalistic Holliday consciously placing himself in danger. Regardless, he packed a lot of living and more than a few knives and firearms into those three-plus decades.He is best known, of course, for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and participation in the October 1881 gunfight near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory—interconnected circumstances long played up in books and movies. “The story of the friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday is the stuff of legend,” historian Gary Roberts wrote in his December 2012
Wild West 
 feature “Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt and Doc.” “Neither man’s story can be told without the other.” True enough, but Holliday would have other clashes and other friends during his six post-Tombstone years. Doc’s saloon life in Leadville, Colo., and Butte, Mont., where a local newspaper reported he “made a great many warm friends among the sporting frater-nity,” are the subject of Peter Brand’s “Holliday in Montana” (see P. 28). In Doc’s last years Wyatt appar-ently didn’t go out of his way to visit his old friend, though they did have one last meeting in a Denver hotel in June 1886, according to Earp’s wife, Josie. “When I heard you were in Denver,” Doc reportedly told Wyatt, “I wanted to see you once more.” Holliday admitted his days were numbered, and Wyatt was moved to tears at their parting. Doc died on the morning of Nov. 8, 1887, at the Hotel Glenwood in Glenwood Springs, Colo.But this is spring for me (and it was for you), so let’s not dwell on sad partings and the autumns and winters of our lives or those of our Western heroes. The Earp-Holliday friendship was, Roberts noted, rooted in courage and loyalty and “largely imperious to the opinions of others.” In the 19th century, he adds, such “close male relationships were considered normal, manly and even ennobling.” And, of course, female relationships were also part of the picture. Wyatt had Josie (“Sadie” to him), and before that his Urilla and his Mattie (to name only the ones considered “wives”). Doc once had his own Mattie— a first cousin (though whether any romance was involved has long been debated) who went on to become a nun and served as the inspiration for the character of Melanie Hamilton in Margaret Mitchell’s novel
Gone With the Wind 
. Holliday moved on to the not necessarily endearing Kate Elder. In this issue of
Wild West 
 Roberts provides fresh insight into the stormy off-and-on relationship between Doc and “Big Nose” Kate (see P. 58), who met in St. Louis in 1872 and lived as husband and wife in Tombstone in spring 1881.In the 1930s Kate (the onetime Mary Katherine Horony) spoke about the late Doc but also suggested she had had a thing for—if not a fling with—bad boy John Ringo, demonstrating she still had much to hide about her early days. She and Doc saw little of each other after 1881, but—at least according to her—at his request she came to see him in the summer of 1887 when he was dying in Glenwood Springs. Many unanswered questions remain as to how well (or not) they treated one another and whether they were soul mates, ill-matched lovers or something in between. I prefer to think of what they had together as a frontier love story—after all, it is spring…or used to be.
Wild West
 editor Gregory Lalire wrote the 2014 historical novel
Captured: Fromthe Frontier Diary of Infant Danny Duly
.His article about base- ball in the frontier West won a 2015 Stirrup Award for best article in
Roundup
, the member- ship magazine of West- ern Writers of America.
DOC
&
 KATE:SOUL MATES?
Faye Dunaway as Kate and Stacy Keach as Doc share a tender moment in the 1971 film
Doc 
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THEY LIVED ASHUSBAND AND WIFE
IN TOMBSTONE

 
ROUND UP
WILD WEST
 
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PULITZER TO STILES
T.J. Stiles became a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner last spring for his biography
Custer’s T<