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 had emigrated in good standing to the Midwest when a series of unfortunate events turned her out. Bat Masterson was a hide merchant and Indian fighter before he became the name of law and order in Dodge City. 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.