One of the first stops on the book tour at the end of the month is Scottsdale’s Museum of the West.

Thanks to Jeffrey White and David Scholefield for the invitation.

The talk and signing is scheduled for February 24 at 2:30 P.M.

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According to Kate:

The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday

Not too long ago, According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday won gold at the Will Rogers Medallion Awards for Best Western Biography. It was also honored with a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award and the Elmer Kelton Book Award from the Academy of Western Artists. I’d like to think Kate would be proud. I know I’m grateful to have been able to have written her story. There are others who see value in Kate’s tale and the makers of Big Nose Kate’s Whiskey falls into that category. They recently purchased several copies of According to Kate to distribute with their drink. I’ll be promoting Big Nose Kate’s Whiskey along with According to Kate on an upcoming book tour.

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According to Kate:

The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday

Hanging on the wall in my office is a framed article I wrote for True West magazine about Kate Elder. I didn’t have it framed because of the article, I had it framed because of the artwork done by Bob Boze Bell. Bell’s work has always been awe-inspiring to me and the artwork he did for the article is mesmerizing with its technical confidence. It suits Kate.

Over the last fifteen years, I’ve had the pleasure of being able to write a handful of articles for True West about women of the American frontier. The magazine is a treasure. I’m looking forward to contributing another article about legendary lawman Bill Tilghman and his wife author Zoe Tilghman. I walked away from my visit with the Tilghman’s family last month with information no one has seen before. I’ll be sharing what I learned in the new book about the pair scheduled to be released in the winter of 2024. I hope Bob Boze Bell provides the artwork for the future True West article. I should be so lucky.

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1859 – One of the oldest known copies of the Bible, “The Codex Sinaiticus” (Sinai Bible), is seen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf who takes the manuscript home with him.

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According to Kate:

The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday

According to Kate: The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday is writer Chris Enss’ latest exploration of the lives of women who shaped the West. Mary Kate Cummings, known as Big Nose Kate among many other aliases, claimed to witness the shoot-out at the OK Corral as well as other famous moments in history alongside her longtime paramour, the dentist-turned-gunfighter John Henry “Doc” Holliday. For years, Cummings collected letters, her own written musings on her life of adventure, and her accounts of the men she knew and the events she claimed to have witnessed. She always hoped that a publisher would pay her to tell the story of her life — but no book emerged while she was alive. In this biography, Enss delves into Cummings’ archives, allowing her version of events to shine.

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According to Kate:

The Legendary Life of Big Nose Kate, Love of Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday’s paramour Kate Elder could never get a publisher to give her the big bucks she demanded to tell the story of her life, but that didn’t mean she didn’t collect material she wanted to use in a biography. Over the fifty years Mary Kate Cummings-Elder, alias Big Nose Kate, traversed the West she saved letters from her family, musings she had written about her love interests, and life with the notorious John Henry Holliday. Using rare, never-before published material Big Nose Kate stockpiled in anticipation of writing the tale of her days on the Wild Frontier, the definitive book about the famous soiled dove has finally been told.

Kate claims to have witnessed the Gunfight at the OK Corral and exchanged words with the likes of Wyatt Earp and Josephine Marcus. There’s no doubt she embellished her adventures, but that doesn’t take away from their historical importance. She was a controversial figure in a rough and rowdy territory. What she witnessed, the lifestyle she led, and the influential western people she met are fascinating and represent a time much romanticized.