Doc Holliday

The Life and Legend

By: Gary L. Roberts

Narrated by: Arthur Flavell

In Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend, the historian Gary Roberts takes aim at the most complex, perplexing, and paradoxical gunfighter of the Old West, drawing on more than 20 years of research - including new primary sources - in his quest to separate the life from the legend.

Doc Holliday was a study in contrasts: the legendary gunslinger who made his living as a dentist; the emaciated consumptive whose very name struck fear in the hearts of his enemies; the degenerate gambler and alcoholic whose fierce loyalty to his friends compelled him, more than once, to risk his own life; and the sidekick whose near-mythic status rivals that of the West's greatest heroes. With lively details of Holliday's spirited exploits, his relationships with such Western icons as Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this book sheds new light on one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history.

©2006 Gary L. Roberts (P)2019 Tantor

Great story and narrator

It got a little tedious at times but I’m glad I stuck with it. I picked it up at random and I wound up really enjoying it, especially towards the end.

Doc

I absolutely enjoyed this book!! I think it was well written & had lots of information.

Worth the listen

Worth the listen if you enjoy the story of Doc and Wyatt. Very informative to facts and myths you may not have known about. Had me craving every moment to listen

All biographers should side this as template

One of the best researched and fairly presented biographies I’ve ever read. This the most objective, matter of fact presentations of a biography I’ve ever read/heard. And yet, the author still manages to weave a compelling narrative. This is a must listen!

Really Doc Holiday was Not the Outlaw Media then made it same so then.

Doc Holiday was not what the Newspapers / Media formats back then and all of the Hollywood programs to paint him as as evil man. Was and is a lie. If you Study History you can and will be able to relate the same way now in 2024 with elite take over offices were all taken place then too.