Synopsis: Doc Holliday's Woman
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Compelling, passionate, and uncompromising, DOC HOLLIDAY'S WOMAN is a
magnificent human drama based on the memories of those who lived it, the facts the history books omitted, and the diaries of the woman whose life it celebrates. Here, told in a dazzling feat of storytelling genius, is a tale that blazes on the page: the true story of Kate Elder, "Big Nose Kate"— a European aristocrat orphaned amid
desperadoes and dance hall girls, a free spirit in the Old West's toughest boom towns, and the unconventional mistress of the legendary gunfighter she'd follow across buffalo country to hell itself ...
Born Mary Katharine Harony, Kate Elder was a survivor of the West's most dangerous years. She began life in the palaces of the Hapsburg Empire and came to America when her parents followed the Emperor
Maximilian to Mexico. In the broad plains of Kansas and the sere mesas of the South-west, she found a land whose breadth and
beauty mesmerized her, even as it tested her strength and tried to break her spirit.
Orphaned as a teenager, Kate did whatever she had to do in order to survive, including entertaining men in a Dodge City saloon run by Wyatt Earp's sister-in-law Bessie. But only one man would ever claim
her heart, Doe Holliday, the handsome gambler who became Earp's famous, doomed partner. Here, in a rich, vivid, impeccably
researched account is the whole courageous sojourn of a woman on her own in the West, including her first meeting with Doc, breaking him out of a Texas jail on the night before his hanging, and witnessing his showdown with the Clantons on Tombstone, Arizona's, dusty streets.
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