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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
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Designing Doc Holliday
One of the last—but most important—elements of book publishing is the design of the cover. A self published author may have complete control over cover design, while a traditionally published author (like yours truly) has a whole art and marketing department to do the work. With many creators taking part in the process, the final product may not reflect the author’s first intent, while still satisfying bookstore buyers and distributors.
Such is the case in the cover of my new pictorial biography: The World of Doc Holliday: History & Historic Images. In my mind, since the book was inspired by Doc’s railroad travels across the country, a cover featuring an antique train would have been perfect. The first mock-up of my own suggested design combined both a train on a high trestle and a photo of Dr. John Henry Holliday taken in Prescott, Arizona, shortly before he moved to Tombstone, and sent to his family back home in Georgia—an elegant image of a traveling man in the era of the iron horse.
Only problem with my design suggestion was that the photo had already been prominently used on Dr. Gary Robert’s seminal and scholarly biography, Doc Holliday: The Life & Legend. The publisher didn’t want to confuse bookstore buyers or readers, so we had
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Doc Holliday
Gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851–1887)
This article is about the American historical figure. For other uses, see Doc Holliday (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with the American baseball pitcher Roy Halladay, nicknamed "Doc" in reference to Holliday.
Doc Holliday | |
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Autographed portrait, Prescott, Arizona, c. 1879 | |
| Born | John Henry Holliday August 14, 1851 Griffin, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | November 8, 1887(1887-11-08) (aged 36) Glenwood Springs, Colorado, U.S. |
| Resting place | Pioneer Cemetery (a.k.a. Linwood Cemetery), Glenwood Springs, Colorado, U.S. 39°32′22″N107°19′9″W / 39.53944°N 107.31917°W / 39.53944; -107.31917 (Pioneer Cemetery) |
| Education | Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery |
| Occupation(s) | Dentist, professional gambler, gunfighter |
| Known for | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Earp Vendetta Ride |
| Spouse | "Big Nose" Kate Horony (common-law wife) (m. 1877–1882) |
John Henry Holliday (August 14, 1851[1]: 13 – November 8, 1887), better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawmanWyatt Ear