# Big Nose Kate — Tombstone character guide

> Big Nose Kate in Tombstone by Walter Noble Burns.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Kate

**First appearance:** 0002-tombstone

## Who they are

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

## In the story

### [III: Glad Hand and Trigger Finger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/tombstone_se/chapters/iii-glad-hand-and-trigger-finger)

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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