Elder, Kate

Elder, Kate

▪ American plainswoman
also called  Katie Elder , or  Kate Fisher , byname  Big Nose Kate , or  Nosey Kate 
flourished 1877–81

      plainswoman and frontier prostitute of the old American West, companion and possible wife of Doc Holliday (Holliday, Doc) (q.v.).

      Nothing is known of her background before she turned up in a Fort Griffin, Texas, saloon in the fall of 1877, working as a barroom prostitute. There she met Holliday, with whom she had an affair and whom she helped to escape the law after he had knifed and killed a man in a brawl. Early in 1878 they made their way to Dodge City, Kan., where they took rooms as Dr. and Mrs. John H. Holliday; they claimed to have married and may have done so, though no proof exists.

      They later moved on to Tombstone, Ariz., where in July 1881 an intoxicated Elder signed a deposition to the effect that John H. Holliday had been one of the outlaws who had lately tried to hold up the Benson stagecoach. Holliday was later freed of the charge, but he straightaway abandoned Elder.

      Her subsequent life is unknown, although a late story, probably apocryphal, has Elder turning up in Bisbee, Ariz., in 1884/85. There in the Brewery Gulch saloon she was reportedly slain by a stray bullet fired by a drunk.

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