Background
Karen Holliday Tanner was born on March 30, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a daughter of Carl Birger Olson, a developer, and Mary Adele (Holliday) Olson, a homemaker.
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Evanston, Illinois, United States
From 1957 to 1958 Karen Holiday Tanner attended Northwestern University.
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College Park, Maryland, United States
From 1997 to 1998 Karen Holiday Tanner attended the University of Maryland at College Park. In 2001 she received a Bachelor of Science degree from this university.
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Evanston, Illinois, United States
From 1957 to 1958 Karen Holiday Tanner attended Northwestern University.
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College Park, Maryland, United States
From 1997 to 1998 Karen Holiday Tanner attended the University of Maryland at College Park. In 2001 she received a Bachelor of Science degree from this university.
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Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
(John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday,...)
John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday’s early years, in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west. The influence of Holliday’s genteel upbringing never disappeared, but it was increasingly overshadowed by his emerging western personality.
https://www.amazon.com/Doc-Holliday-Portrait-Karen-Tanner/dp/0806133201/?tag=2022091-20
1998
Last of the Old-Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story
(Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George...)
Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of.” In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877-1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest. Incorporating previously unknown facts about the career of this frontier outlaw, the Tanners thoroughly document Musgrave’s half-century of crime, from his childhood in the Texas brush country to his final days in Paraguay.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Old-Time-Outlaws-George-Musgrave-ebook/dp/B00PMRTJUI/?tag=2022091-20
2002
Climax Jim, the Tumultuous Tale of Arizona's rustling Cowboy
(He had escaped from every jail in the territory except th...)
He had escaped from every jail in the territory except the penitentiary at Yuma, he once bragged to an Arizona official. It was not an empty boast. "Climax Jim is easily the most slippery jail bird in the Southwest," one Arizona newspaper asserted. "It is an old saying that the third time is the charm but Climax has been arrested and tried about forty-seven times and he always succeeded in getting in the clear," another territorial tabloid proclaimed.
https://www.amazon.com/Climax-Tumultuous-Arizonas-rustling-Cowboy/dp/0976689804
2005
The Bronco Bill Gang
(The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his...)
The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his gang captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang's crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898. Anyone with a taste for western history or an interest in New Mexico and Arizona in the bad old days will find this book irresistible. The authors' attention to the ways Bill and his men fell into a life of crime shows us the real West, where cowboys and gunmen could wind up on either side of the law. The Bronco Bill Gang is the first book to explore this fabled band of outlaws who crisscrossed the American Southwest.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806141654/?tag=2022091-20
2011
Karen Holliday Tanner
Edit ProfileEducation
From 1957 to 1958 Karen Holiday Tanner attended Northwestern University and the University of Maryland at College Park from 1997 to 1998. In 2001 she received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland - College Park.
Career
From 1981 to 1986 Karen Holliday Tanner was an owner and manager of two restaurants in Fallbrook, California. In 1986 she became a self-employed tax accountant in Fallbrook. She is also an author of several books.
Achievements
Works
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Last of the Old-Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story
(Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George...)
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Climax Jim, the Tumultuous Tale of Arizona's rustling Cowboy
(He had escaped from every jail in the territory except th...)
2005 -
The Bronco Bill Gang
(The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his...)
2011 -
Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait
(John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday,...)
1998
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Last of the Old-Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story
Membership
Karen Holliday Tanner is a member of the Toastmasters International, of the National Outlaw-Lawman Association, of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of the Western Writers of America, and of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Interests
Connections
On September 27, 1958, Karen Holliday Tanner married Charles R. D. Selinger and divorced him in 1965. On December 21, 1967, she married David C. Mielke. In 1986 they divorced. On April 16, 1988, Karen married John D. Tanner, Jr., a professor of history. She has three children from her second marriage: Richard A., Scott D., Blair C.
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Contemporary Authors
1998
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Political Party
Republican party
Education
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1957 - 1958
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1997 - 1998
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2001
The University of Maryland, College Park , Bachelor of Science College Park, Maryland, United States
Career
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1981 - 1986
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1986
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1998 - present