Why was she called “Big Nose Kate”
(Posted 17:24:43 on 6th March 2012 by Rag)
I find myself back in Tombstone some three years or so since we visited on the road trip. This time I'm with the wife and my little partner pictured below.
The age old question of why Doc Holiday's girl was known as Big Nose Kate springs to mind. On the stage coach tour, they gave us the now common answer that it wasn't because she had a big nose, but was in fact due to her sticking her nose into everyone else's business.
The working theory that we have is somewhat different and, as I understand it, stems from hours of drinking research in The Stag. We now believe that she was called Big Nose Kate ... because her name was Kate.
Oddly no Americans seem to find this funny.
