Mary Katherine Horony, known as "Big Nose" Kate was born in Budapest, Hungary on November 7th, 1850. The daughter of a Doctor and the eldest of seven children, Kate was very educated and fluent in Hungarian, French, Spanish and English.

After her mother died, Kate ran away at the age of 15 and began to travel through several cow towns and within a few years found herself working as a "soiled dove" in a sporting house owned by Bessie Earp, the wife of James Earp, Wyatt's brother.

In 1876 Kate met her on-again, off-again boyfriend Doc Holliday in Fort Griffin, Texas and shortly thereafter traveled with him to the Arizona Territory along with Wyatt Earp, who had previously dumped her.

Kate told of her travels with Holliday and the Earps, including her first arrival in Prescott in 1879 after Wyatt Earp convinced her and Holliday to come with him, Jim Earp and their wives. Brother Virgil Earp already had been in Prescott for two years, serving as a sheriff's deputy. For more information visit https://www.visitwhc.org/big-nose-kate.html