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WEALTH VIRTUES
A Guide to acquire more money than you spend and to save more
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 970
EAN: 9781413494976
ISBN: 1413494978
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: August 29, 2008
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John Henry Holliday steps off the train at Atlanta's Union Station, fresh out of the Pennsylvania Dental College, and into Mattie's arms. But the storybook romance between the young dentist and his cousin is cut short by disease and family strife. Some close relatives are grousing at the couple to break off their relationship, but they are unwilling to bow to family pressures. However his financial reverses and physical health conspire to make that happen. John Henry is diagnosed with tuberculosis and doctors suggest a dryer climate in the West. Mattie pleads to go with him but John Henry says no and travels to Dallas alone. The dry climate stabilizes his condition, but he is unable to make a living from his dental practice. Dispirited and alone he is eventually attracted to saloon life where he takes a new name and calling -- Doc Holliday -- frontier gambler. Kate Elder, a spunky little saloon girl, sets her sights on Doc. And when trouble comes at Ft. Griffin and a noose is about to be tied around Doc's neck Kate executes a daring escape plan and the two ride north, through Indian territory, to Dodge City, Kansas. Doc sets up a dental practice in the cattle town and becomes acquainted with the likes of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short and Eddie Foy. When a wild bunch of drunken cowboy's corner Wyatt Earp Doc hurries to his rescue with a 38 in one hand and a 44 in the other. That moment was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Wyatt Earp would never forget that day at Dodge City when Doc Holliday using courage and grit saved his life. Doc's tenuous relationship with Kate dragged along simply because he was beholden to her for saving him from the hangman's noose at Ft. Griffin. Their tumultuous relationship continued though as they follow the migration of the Dodge City crowd south to Tombstone, Arizona. A corrupt political ring backs the cowboy-outlaw faction with the complicity of the Cochise County Sheriff. Doc has friends in both camps, but joins Wyatt and his brothers on the side of law and order, where his courage and loyalty are once again tested, when he stands with the Earps, in the shootout, at the Ok Corral. Doc survives the gunfight, but death from tuberculosis is never far away. Mattie, desperate in her loneliness, writes that she had become a nun, and with those vows has taken a new name -- Sister Mary Melanie. Doc is stung by the news, but he is quick to realize that it was his own neglect that had placed Mattie in the nunnery. He is fully aware that his days are numbered, but he never wavers in his love for the girl back home. Following Doc's death Wyatt Earp spoke of his friend and said, 'Doc was the most skillful gambler and the speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.'
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THIS IS A SUPERB WRITER IN COMMAND OF HIS SUBJECT. I SHOULD KNOW, HAVING BEEN AN EARP BUFF FOR MANY DECADES AND HAVING READ ALL OF THE HOLLIDAY WRITINGS.
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A GOOD WRITER TO PULL YOU INTO A SUBJECT, WHICH SURELY DOESN'T HURT THE APPEAL OF THIS BOOK.
READ IT IN CONJUNCTION WITH KAREN TANNER'S "DOC HOLLIDAY, A FAMILY PORTRAIT", A BOOK WHICH I ENCOURAGED HER TO WRITE AND HELPED HER GET PUBLISHED
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Yes, I enjoyed this book. It provides another view of Doc, and the author is highly skilled.
Yes. I do recommend it.
Yet "Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend", by Gary L. Roberts is the definitive biography about Doc Holliday, a truly unique, remarkable man that had a way of finding trouble--or of trouble finding him--in an era that had a moral standard that just about didn't exist for many of the people of Tombstone.
Buy "Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone," ... Read More
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I got into a phase of reading Old West history and biographies. This is not only one of the worst Old West books I have read but this is probably the worst book I have ever read. Earlier I posted two negative reviews of this book but curiously Amazon.Com took them down.
This book claims to be a novel. What it really seems to be is a carelessly written, poorly researched history; I guess the logic is then to call it fiction (a novel) so it cannot be criticized as a carelessly written, ... Read More
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Although I am a former graduate student in history, the history of Wild West isn't my specialty. So I had a vague knowledge of Doc Holliday except that he was connected with Wyatt Earp and his gang in Tombstone. But when I read Tom Barnes' book, it helped me to understand the important role Doc Holliday had actually played in that town. I have some reservations about his alleged romance with his cousin, Mattie as I need to read a history book that would confirm it. But it was an enjoyable reading that ... Read More
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"Tom Barnes is a champion in his field with his use of words and descriptions that guide his readers from the very first page. His first hand stories bring topics to light as well as the many experiences that make up Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone.
Readers will discover legends, history and page turning excitement. His mastery of dialogue puts you right there in the setting and moment. Tom Barnes delivers a reader friendly book that will be re-read countless times and shared with ... Read More
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