Doc Holliday: the life and legend

The definitive biography of legendary Western gunslinger Doc Hollida
He was a dentist from the South believed to have gone west because of tuberculosis, a man who went on to become a gambler, a faro dealer, and one of the most feared (and fearless) gunfighters of his time?a close friend of Wyatt Earp and a key participant in the famous 1881 shootout at the OK Corral. He?s been portrayed on screen by actors ranging from Victor Mature and Kirk Douglas to Dennis Quaid and Val Kilmer. But who was the real Doc Holliday? Drawing on 20 years of meticulous, primary-source research, Western historian Gary Roberts strips away the legends and reveals the truth about this enigmatic man, offering many new and surprising discoveries
Gary L. Roberts (Tifton, GA), an Emeritus Professor of History at Abraham Baldwin College, is the author of over 75 articles on Western history as well as Death Comes for the Chief Justice: The Slough-Rynerson Quarrel and Political Violence in New Mexico (0-870-81212-2)