Raised in the Chicago area, Karen Holliday Tanner began her college education at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the University of Maryland. She lived many places in the Midwest and the South before eventually heading to a new lifestyle in the West. During her years of traveling, she developed a love for research and writing. Her first book, Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, was a best-seller for the University of Oklahoma Press and received the Book of the Year Award at the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association (WOLA) Convention in Buffalo, Wyoming, in 1999. Karen has written for the Southern New Mexico Historical Review, True West, Old West, Wild West, The Tombstone Epitaph, the NOLA Quarterly, and the WOLA Journal. Karen Holliday Tanner is a member of Western Writers of America (WWA), Women Writing the West (WWW), Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association (WOLA), National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History (NOLA), Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT), and Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. She has been awarded the designation Advanced Toastmaster by Toastmaster's International. and has done extensive public speaking nationwide. Karen Holliday Tanner Having lived most of his life in the hills of north San Diego County, John D. Tanner, Jr. enjoys the seclusion of the country home which he shares with his wife/author, Karen. John holds degrees in history from Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University and has done post-graduate work at Stanford University and the University of California. A professor emeritus of history, he retired from Palomar College after a thirty-five year teaching career. The author of Alaskan Trails, Siberian Dogs (1998), John has written numerous articles for the Southern New Mexico Historical Review, California Historical Society Quarterly, the Southern California Quarterly, True West, The Journal of the Western Outlaw-Lawman History Association, Old West, Quarterly of the National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History, and Wild West. He maintains membership in Western Historical Association, Western Writers of America, Sons of the Republic of Texas, Old Trail Driver's Association of Texas, National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History, Western Outlaw and Lawman History Association, Arizona Historical Society, and Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association (Life). He has been a biographical subject in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in American Education, and the Dictionary of International Biography. Main Page Reviews Ordering John D. Tanner, Jr.