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Big Nose Kate

Doc Holliday's common-law wife, a fiery saloon girl.

minor

Also known as Kate

First appearance: tombstone

Big Nose Kate shows up with force in III: Glad Hand and Trigger Finger. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Recounted in a story where she helps Doc Holliday escape a lynch mob by bringing him his guns and fleeing to Dodge City.
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DHDoc HollidayWEWyatt EarpVEVirgil EarpEBEd BaileyESEd SchieffelinBNBig Nose Kate

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  • Other

Character groups

  • Extended Cast of Characters
  • Key Tombstone Figures
  • Protagonist

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Story tension across the book.

SetupEscalationAftermathClimax
  • Setup
  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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