Big Nose Kate
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Mary Katherine Horony Cummings, popularly known as Big Nose Kate, was a Hungarian-born American outlaw, gambler, prostitute and longtime companion and common-law wife of Old West gambler and gunfighte
Mary Katherine Horony (left) and younger sister Wilhelmina c. 1865, near the time they were orphaned. Mary Katherine is about 15 years old.
Horony's saloon in Tombstone originally called the "Grand Hotel" was built in 1880. The McLaury brothers stayed there the night before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Big Nose Kate at 40
Horony's grave in Prescott, Arizona
James Earp
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James Cooksey Earp was a lesser known older brother of Old West lawman Virgil Earp and lawman/gambler Wyatt Earp. Unlike his brothers, he was a saloon-keeper and was not present at the Gunfight at the
Big Nose Kate
…was fined for working as a "sporting woman", i.e. a prostitute, in a "sporting house" in Dodge City, Kansas, run by Nellie "Bessie" (Ketchum) Earp, James Earp's wife. In 1876, Horony moved to Fort Griffin, Texas, where in 1877 she met Doc Holliday at John Shanssey's Saloon, where Holliday was dealing cards…
James Earp