Five Docs For You to Choose From

September 5, 2018
   It's been 25 years since my first book on Doc Holliday sold out in record time. The second edition is long gone as well. In that time, much new scholarship on the deadly dentist has emerged, most specifically, Gary L. Roberts' masterful "Doc Holliday: The Life And Legend," 2006. 

   So, just in time for Christmas, you can expect to find the third edition—revised and expanded—under your tree.

   In addition to all the new information there is quite a bit of new artwork that I have done over the past 19 years for the pages of True West magazine. And, just to spruce things up for the occasion we are designing a new cover.

   One of the problems with an excellent designer and art director is: it makes it damn tough to choose! Case in point, Dan The Man Harshberger has whipped out a dozen different looks for the third edition of "The Illustrated Life & Times of Doc Holliday." 

   We are going to press in 10 days and I can't decide which one we should use. I love them all! 

   What to do.

   Please take a good look at these five designs and help us choose the best one. Thank you.

Doc Holliday cover #1

Doc Holliday cover #2

Doc Holliday cover #3

Doc Holliday cover #4

Doc Holliday cover #5

"He was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierce loyalty to his friends compelled him more than once, to risk his own life; the sidekick whose near-mythic status has come to rival that of the West's greatest heroes."

—Gary L. Roberts