Robert K. DeArment, [author of: Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend; Knights of the green Cloth; The Saga of the Frontier Gambler; George Scarborough: The Life and Death of the Lawman of the Closing Frontier]:
"This book will undoubtedly take a place among the foremost books in the Western gunfighter genre. No previous Holliday biographer has remotely approached the level of meticulous research exhibited by Ms. Tanner. Her book will be considered the definitive Holliday biography and will supplant all previously published works on the man's life as the complete and authoritative account."
Glenn G. Boyer, [author of: I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp and Wyatt Earp's Tombstone Vendetta]:
"This is the book I hoped for. It will live. The public is indebted to the author for her work. I thank you, Karen Holliday Tanner, for a stunning piece of research and writing on behalf of all the Western Buffs that I know have awaited this book, as I have."
Ben T. Traywick, [author of: John Henry (The Doc Holliday Story)]:
"This book reveals a great deal about Holliday's family life, the tragedies that beset him molding his personality, and day to day items that can only be known by a family member and a writer engaged in primary research. A vast amount of information is revealed for the first time."
