Big nose kate biography
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Big Nose Kate
Companion of Doc Holliday (–)
Mary Katherine Horony | |
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Horony (left) and younger sister Wilhelmina c.&#;, near the time they were orphaned. Kate is about 15 years old. | |
| Born | Mária Katalin Magdolna Horony ()November 7, Érsekújvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire |
| Died | November 2, () (aged&#;90) Prescott, Arizona, United States |
| Other&#;names | Kate Elder · Kate Fisher · Mary Cummings-Haroney |
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| Spouse(s) | Doc Holliday (common-law), George Cummings |
Mary Katherine Horony Cummings (November 7, – November 2, ), popularly known as Big Nose Kate, was a Hungarian-born American outlaw, gambler, prostitute and longtime companion and common-law wife of Old West gambler and gunfighter Doc Holliday. "Tough, stubborn and fearless", she was educated, but chose to work as a prostitute due to the independence it provided her. She is the only woman with whom Holliday is kn
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While still in Fort Griffin in , Doc was dealing kort to a local bully by the name of Ed Bailey, who was accustomed to having his own way without question. Bailey was unimpressed with Doc’s reputation and in an attempt to irritate him; he kept picking up the discards and looking at them. Looking at the discards was strictly prohibited by the rules of Western Poker, a violation that could force the player to forfeit the pot.
Though Holliday warned Bailey twice, the bully ignored him and picked up the discards again. This time, Doc raked in the pot without showing his grabb, nor saying a word. Bailey immediately brought out his pistol from beneath the table, but before the man could pull the trigger, Doc’s lethal knife slashed the man across the stomach. With blood spilled everywhere, Bailey lay sprawled across the table.
Knowing that his actions were in self-defense, Doc did not run. However, he was still arrested and incarcerated in a local hotel room, there being no jail in the tow
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The Real Story of Doc Holliday and Big Nose Kate
In Fort Griffin, Texas was at the height of its boom. The military post had been an important center of operations in the Red River War.
This military campaign reached its zenith in with the defeat of the southern Plains tribes such as the Comanche, Arapaho, Southern Cheyenne, and Kiowa by the U.S. Army.
Alongside the post, a boomtown had materialized.
This grew as the great longhorn cattle drives passed through Fort Griffin on the Great Western Cattle Trail to Dodge City. The town of Fort Griffin, also dubbed the “Hide Town” or the “Flat,” was lively and filled with gambling palaces, boisterous bordellos, and not a little sin.
This town attracted the likes of two characters who met and developed one of the most fiery anti-romances of the Wild West. The gambler John Henry Holliday, better known as “Doc” Holliday, and the prostitute Mary Katherine Horony (sometimes Haroney) known popularly as “Big Nose Kate” met at Fort Gri