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The First Las Vegas
In the summer of 1879, Mary Katherine Horony ("Big Nose Kate") believed she had finally cheated the grave and saved Doc Holliday’s life. Soaking in the healing sulfur waters of the Montezuma Hot Springs in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Doc’s raging tuberculosis had entered remission. Armed with a clean commercial lot on Center Street, Doc hung his legitimate dental shingle, Kate managed their boarding rooms, and for the first time in their volatile lives, they planned on marriage, peace, and raising a family.
Then the powder keg blew. Wyatt Earp and his brother Jim rode into town chasing Arizona silver dreams, demanding Doc cash out, grab his pistols, and head west. At the same time, the infamous Dodge City Gang—Hoodoo Brown, "Mysterious" Dave Mather, and J.J. Webb—hijacked the local courts and police force. Enforcing strict gun-control laws to systematically disarm arriving travelers, these crooked lawmen robbed patrons blind and murdered in cold blood under the color of law.
With a young Billy the Kid trading stolen livestock out of Doc’s back rooms and blood filling the streets, the fed-up townspeople organized the clandestine Las Vegas Vigilance Committee. When the corruption turned fatal, the vigilantes stormed the jail, dragged the crooked syndicate into the plaza, and executed swift frontier justice—hanging four men at a time from the town windmill. Surrounded by a cartel of crooked badges, midnight hangings, and the lethal pull of Wyatt Earp, Doc made the fatal wager that severed Kate's dream of peace and set the O.K. Corral in motion.
- Primary memoirs & recollections of Mary Katherine Horony (Big Nose Kate), Arizona Pioneers' Home & Arizona Historical Society Archives.
- Documented via Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend (Dr. Gary L. Roberts) and According to Kate (Chris Enss).
- Documented historical records of the 1879–1880 Las Vegas, NM property deeds, the Plaza Windmill hangings, and the documented Earp-Holliday-Billy the Kid crossroads.
- Format Theatrical Feature
- Key Materials Screenplay / Pitch Deck / Key Art
- Seeking Strategic Co-Producer / Equity Co-Financier
Double Down or Die
Fresh out of the jungles of Vietnam with two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star, a decorated Marine platoon commander risks everything to pioneer the impossible: the world's first overnight aviation express network.
Leveraging his family's entire inheritance and securing high-risk loans to assemble a fleet of Dassault Falcon jets, he faces catastrophic headwinds as skyrocketing fuel embargoes bleed the fledgling company dry. Staring down a fatal Monday morning deadline with just $5,000 left in the corporate treasury against an overdue $24,000 aviation fuel invoice that will ground every aircraft and liquidate the dream, he refuses to fold. He withdraws the company’s final funds, boards a weekend flight to Las Vegas, and steps up to the high-roller blackjack tables.
As the clock strikes Sunday night, the cards run cold. Confronting a crushing deficit, he stands a hair's breadth from losing everything—his company, his marriage, and his family’s honor. With the Monday sunrise approaching and the future of global logistics on the line, he pushes his last remaining chips across the green felt...
- Changing How the World Does Business: FedEx's Incredible Journey to Success by Roger Frock (Founding COO).
- Overnight Success: Federal Express of Memphis by Vance Trimble.
- Documented corporate archives of Federal Express and the historic 1973 Las Vegas turnaround wager.
- Format Theatrical Feature
- Key Materials Treatment / Lookbook / Packaging
- Seeking Co-Production Partner / Distribution
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