Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They ...
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Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They deserve serious study simply because they have continued to grip the public imagination. Such was Doc Holliday, and Gary Roberts has produced a model for looking at both the life and the legend of these frontier immortals." --Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "Doc Holliday emerges from the shadows for the first time in this important work of Western biography. Gary L. Roberts has put flesh and soul to the man who has long been one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history. This is both an important work and a wonderful read." --Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend "Gary Roberts is one of a foremost class of writers who has created a real literature and authentic history of the so-called Western. His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Corral and into the glare of history." --Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was "Gary L. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. Family members knew him as John. Somewhere in between the two lies the real John Henry Holliday. Roberts reflects this concept in his writing. This book should be of interest to Holliday devotees as well as newly found readers." --Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays
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Without doubt, Doc Holliday, The Life and the Legend by Gary L. Roberts is the best biography written about the 19th century gunfighter, drunkard, gambler and dentist, Doc Holliday. This includes the most comprehensive historical account of the famous gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona between the Earps, Doc Holliday and the Clantons and McLaurys?.
Dr. Roberts meticulously traces the trail of John Henry Holliday from his native Georgia through Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado before he was laid to rest in Glenwood Springs, Colorado after dying in 1887 from tuberculosis at the age of 36. Dr. Roberts takes the real measure of the man and successfully separates a great part of the legend from the real person. There has been so many disparate interpretations of this complex individual in previous biographies.
One of the most appealing traits of Holliday was his friendship with Wyatt Earp. He was loyal to his friends as this book clearly demonstrates. Dr. Roberts shows the good, bad and ugly of his character in a well-written narrative.
The best section of the book is his description of and causes for the gunfight at the OK ? or as he characterized it as the ?Fremont Street Fiasco.? It was ?bloody miscalculations that neither side really wanted but that both sides believed the other side wanted.? The Cow-Boys, the Clantons and McLaurys, as well as the Earps, set themselves up with miscommunication, male testosterone and rumor. The business community supported the Earps and was opposed to the Mexican cattle rustling and lawlessness of the Cow-Boys.
One of the interesting aspects of Dr. Roberts? interpretation is the support the Earps and Doc Holliday had from the well-to-do citizens of Tombstone, Wells Fargo & Co., and Republicans. During the subsequent trial of the Earps and Doc Holliday for murder and the Wyatt Earp posse riding out to avenge the murder of Morgan Earp by the Cow-Boys, this support was evident. They had the best-paid lawyers and actual financial support from Wells Fargo. The political climate and its effect in Arizona contributed substantially to the final results.
If you want to read a well-researched history of the Old West, Doc Holliday, the Life and Legend is the best of the lot.
Flyte534
May 10, 2007
Great Book
I have been doing a lot of reserch into the life of John Henry Holliday and the time period surrounding the infamous gunfight. I strongly recommend this book. I am not a fast reader, but I finished this book within the matter of a week. "Doc" Holliday comes to life as a real person. This book is not a rehash of the legends surrounding Holliday and his life. This book is finely researched and well written.
