Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Stories

By: Virgil Cain

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Wyatt Earp was a gambler and a pimp long before he wore the tin star. Big Nose Kate was the daughter of a Hungarian doctor who emigrated in good standing to the Midwest when a series of unfortunate events turned her out. Billy the Kid was an orphan with no notion of becoming one of the most prodigious killers in the history of the Wild West when circumstances beyond his control convinced him to live by the gun, and to die by it if need be. Doc Holliday was a gentleman from Georgia who was so well born as to be educated in Philadelphia when a diagnosis of tuberculosis forced him on an unlikely odyssey. In the Old West, no one was only one thing. Everyone had a past, and few were defined by it.